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Re: [PATCH] commit: add --committer option

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ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 12, 2025, 16:48 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 于2025年11月12日周三 05:58写道:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > I just mean being able to do:
> >
> >   git commit --amend --author='Foo Bar <foo@example.com>' --committer-is-author
> >
> > instead of:
> >
> >   git commit --amend --author='Foo Bar <foo@example.com>' --committer='Foo Bar <foo@example.com>'
>
> Ah, I see.  Like
>
>     git -c user.name='Foo Bar' -c user.email=foo@example.com commit --amend
>
You still need:

git -c user.name ='Foo Bar' -c user.email=foo@example.com commit --amend --author

It's hard to remember and not symmetric enough.
> Makes me wonder if we want user.ident that covers them both ;-)
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