Re: Git Feature Request (Fixdown in interactive rebase)

> I wonder if we deliberately designed how each insn you can write in
> the todo list should come up with the authorship data (i.e. ident
> and timestamp), or if we are just using the natural consequence of
> how the implementation happens to work?  I think it makes sense for
> "fixup", as an instruction used to make a small tweak to the bulk of
> work you've done some time ago, to use the authorship information of
> the original commit that gets fixed up. I don't know offhand what
> other insns like "edit", "reword", etc. do, and if there is a room
> to improve them.