Re: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 4, 2007, 06:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vircc8ybz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070404060213.GB31984@mellanox.co.il>

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:

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>> When e-mailed message has garbage at the beginning (e.g. "Hi!"),
>> git users can either run "commit --amend" immiediately after
>> "git am",
>
> This one would overwrite the authorship information though,
> would it not? I actually wished several times for an --amend-message
> commit flag that would only edit the message, preserving the author
> (and possibly date?) metadata.
> Of course, I simply copy the author and pass it in --author,
> but it's somewhat awkward to do. Do others notice this?
>
> *Maybe* git can be even smarter, and notice that only
> commit message has changed, and preserve the author automatically
> in this case? I haven't looked at how hard that would be to do.

Maybe you can try what you complain about out before you rant? I amend other people's commit messages after the fact almost *every* *day*.