Actually, further to this I have more justification why this can be considered a bug. After performing the "git rebase -i" I find that all the "git commit --amend" edits are correctly committed with the original commit author and date+time etc but all the "git commit --allow-empty" commits are committed with my own name and current date+time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html