On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov <flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:36:02 +0800 > lei yang <yanglei.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> if want to add foo.c to my git repos ,I want to keep others know foo.c >> is written by phil, and better to leave the origin commit message.how >> could I do? > > I'm not sure I was able to parse the question correctly, but it seems > you want to commit a file authored by someone else. > > For this very reason Git distinguishes between the committer -- a > person who actually recorded a commit -- and the author -- a person who > authored the change. Typically these fields are the same in a commit, > but they might differ, for instance, when importing the changes from > patch files, and you might specify the author when doing `git commit` > by supplying it the "--author=..." command-line option. > >> note: I can't use format-patch, because they have different path for >> this file. > > A patch is just a text file -- you are free to change paths in its > hunks using a text editor.
Thanks --author works for me, if I use git am xx.patch with your method to change the path, it can't add sign-off by me, what I mean: I want to let other know this patch is phil write, and integrate by me to my git repos Lei --
