From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:48:27 GMT Subject: Re: modifying commit's author Message-ID: <7v8xfuss84.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20070122203734.GB23187@fieldses.org> "J. Bruce Fields" 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.