On 06/04/2013 10:42 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 04.06.2013 14:20, schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy: >> I still have to learn how to force git not to overwrite the original commit >> author :-/ >> Is there any way to tell the original creator in the commit message so it >> could live >> in a git forever and survive commit changes? > > To fix it up: > > git commit --amend --author="Foo Bar <foo@bar>"
Then I have to recall about every patch whether it is mine or not. Annoying :( > If you cherry-pick patches in the first place, the author gets preserved > and you can update them as part of git-rebase or do your modifications > using just git commit --amend. > > Note that at least one patch was Author: instead of From: and at least > one two From:s. git removed "From" from some patch commit messages and left in others :-/ -- Alexey
