Re: modifying commit's author

"J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] writes:

If I got the author wrong on a commit, is there a quick way to fix it
(e.g. by passing the right arguments or environment variables to commit
--amend)?

I usually do "format-patch -$n; reset --hard HEAD~$n; edit
00??-*.patch; am 00??-*.patch" myself when I got into that
situation to rebuild the branch, and haven't personally felt
need for an option to --amend, but it might make sense to teach
git-commit --amend to allow --author option to override it; I
think it currently ignores --author when given without erroring
out.

It may become a question if we would want to allow updating the
timestamp as well, but when people asked for --author I did not
hear from anybody who wanted to have --authortime, so not being
able to do so probably is Ok.

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:48:27PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

If I got the author wrong on a commit, is there a quick way to fix it
(e.g. by passing the right arguments or environment variables to commit
--amend)?

I usually do "format-patch -$n; reset --hard HEAD~$n; edit
00??-*.patch; am 00??-*.patch" myself when I got into that
situation to rebuild the branch, and haven't personally felt
need for an option to --amend, but it might make sense to teach
git-commit --amend to allow --author option to override it; I
think it currently ignores --author when given without erroring
out.

That might be nice, but actually the git-am trick is more convenient
than I'd realized; thanks for the tip.

--b.