Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: use same commit's message and date with f -C

Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

Hi Mathias

On 24/09/2025 16:21, Mathias Rav wrote:

quoted

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.