Thanks a ton. That took care of it.

On Jan 24, 10:44 pm, Konstantin Khomoutov
<flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:38:05PM -0800, ats wrote:
> > I did not have the global user.name and user.email not set and hit the
> > commit first.
>
> > I am now trying to amend the username with the below command now
> > git commit --amend --author=ats@XXXXX
>
> > I have tried above with both the old use.email and new user.email
> > but I am getting the error message like the following:
>
> > fatal: No existing author found with 'ats@XXXXXXX'
>
> > Could you please advise?
>
> ISTR, you just properly set user.name and user.email and then do
> $ git commit --amend -C HEAD --reset-author
>
> That should reuse the log message from the tip commit but use your
> configured parameters to set the commit author.

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