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Re: modifying commit's author

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 22, 2007, 20:48 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> If I got the author wrong on a commit, is there a quick way to fix it
> (e.g. by passing the right arguments or environment variables to commit
> --amend)?

I usually do "format-patch -$n; reset --hard HEAD~$n; edit 00??-*.patch; am 00??-*.patch" myself when I got into that situation to rebuild the branch, and haven't personally felt need for an option to --amend, but it might make sense to teach git-commit --amend to allow --author option to override it; I think it currently ignores --author when given without erroring out.

It may become a question if we would want to allow updating the timestamp as well, but when people asked for --author I did not hear from anybody who wanted to have --authortime, so not being able to do so probably is Ok.

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