[Wireshark-dev] Changing author of an already accepted change

Hi all, My change has been accepted and merged to master, and I wonder if it would be possible to change the author that appears in git log. Currently it shows Juanjo, and since everyone is showing their last name, it would be great to show Juanjo Martin. How can I change that? I have seen that

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Changing author of an already accepted change

Unfortunately it's been written in stone at this point. There is basically no way to modify history for a widely-distributed project like this (amending that commit would cause all sorts of conflicts for everybody who has a copy of the current git repository). The best we can do is probably add a

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Changing author of an already accepted change

Then it's OK. I just wanted to be coherent with everyone's changes. I have done this in my machine, so in the future changes it appears correctly: git config --global user.name Juanjo Martin Thanks for the quick response! Juanjo Martin On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Evan Huus