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

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> ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> writes:
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> >> I'm afraid I don't quite follow. If you are amending existing commits to
> >> fix them up after you have corrected your configuration then they will
> >> have the correct committer automatically when you run "git commit
> >> --amend --author=..." to correct the author. If you are committing
> >> before you have realized that user.{name,email} are misconfigured then I
> >> don't see how "--committer" helps because you have not yet realized
> >> anything is wrong.
> >>
> >
> > You're right that after realizing the misconfiguration and correcting the
> > repository's user.name and user.email, running `git commit --amend` will
> >  fix the committer information, but the author remains unchanged. Users
> > then need an additional `git commit --amend --author=...` to fix the author,
> > which does work but requires an extra step.
>
> Isn't it more like "You need to run with --author to correct the
> authorship by amending the commit *anyway*, but while doing so, the
> committer information will automatically be corrected"?  As I said
> earlier in a separate message, the author and the committer are not
> symmetric, so having "--author" does make sense in the above picture,
> while "--committer", as Phillip points out, much less.
>