Matthieu Moy wrote: > The complete message says: > > "Your name and email address were configured automatically based\n" > "on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.\n" > "You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:\n" > "\n" > " git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"\n" > " git config --global user.email you@xxxxxxxxxxx\n" > "\n" > "If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:\n" > "\n" > " git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@xxxxxxxxxxx>'\n" Sloppy reading on my part. So the original text explains: how to configure your identity globally how to change the identity for a single commit > "\n" > "or\n" > "\n" > " git commit --amend --reset-author\n"; Maybe: If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it: git commit --amend --author='Patch Submitter <author@xxxxxxxxxxx>' To just use your newly configured identity: git commit --amend --reset-author (modulo wording). The idea being to make it clear to the user why we are telling two ways to do the same thing. Sorry for the nonsense. Jonathan -- 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