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Re: Keep original author with git merge --squash?

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David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net>
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Feb 12, 2015, 22:19 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:16 PM, David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net> wrote:
> - Before invoking prepare-commit-msg, all of the `Author:` lines found
>   in SQUASH_MSG have the same value

OK, and to be very specific: I'm just proposing "literally the same text written after Author"; using mailmap to detect that multiple different Author lines are actually the same author could be a potential later improvement.

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