From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:08:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: use same commit's message and date with f -C Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <12659f80-2934-4158-9a22-7a4c11060679@gmail.com> Phillip Wood writes: > Hi Mathias > > On 24/09/2025 16:21, Mathias Rav wrote: >> I have never used the "amend!" autosquash feature and I was not >> aware of >> it until I stepped through the code in sequencer.c to implement my >> proposed change. I think the `git commit --amend` manual explains quite >> nicely why you could want to keep the author of one commit and the >> message of another. >> Before discovering "f -C" to achieve the "fixdown" behavior, as >> Hannes >> describes, I used "x f" to invoke my own single-letter shell script to >> achieve the behavior I wanted, and I guess I am fine with going back to >> that for the cases where I want to preserve author dates (which, to be >> fair, is often not that important to me). > > I'd be happy to see a patch that implemented a new option for "fixup" > that copied the author. As the discussion that Oswald linked to shows > this is not the first time someone has wanted this functionality. The > issue is that we don't want to change the existing behavior, not that > we don't want to support this via a different option. Yup, thanks for stating this more clealy than I would.