Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] rebase -i: use config file format to save author information

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

It may be possible to write a ref to the commit we need information from. 
And then when "git rebase --continue" is called, we would read this ref and 
then get information from the referenced commit?

You mean replacing author-script temporary file with the name of the
commit object we are "pick"ing?

That surely sounds like a more direct approach.  I wonder why the script
didn't do that in the first place (I suspect it was just because it was
easier to implement by borrowing the logic to parse authorship information
from git-revert-script).