Re: git-am and workflow question

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 11, 2007, 06:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7vps8hdwf7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070210221852.GC32216@mellanox.co.il>

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

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>> My second pass is actually applying the patch by piping each
>> e-mail message from my e-mail client to "git am -3 -s", and if I
>> do not like something in the patch, I make corrections and then
>> run "git commit --amend".
>
> git-commit --amend seems to rewrite the commit author which is
> annoying if you only want to modify the log message a little. As a
> work-around I copy the author info from the log and passing --author
> explicitly, but is there an easier way?

I am puzzled about this comment. You should not have to do anything funky at all.

"commit --amend" changes the committer information (because you are now committing something different and at a different time from what was recorded in the original commit object), but does not touch the author information at all.

We _might_ have had a bug in an ancient version but I even doubt it.