On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:56:00AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > > Wouldn't it work better to just get rid of the longer form and say > > something like: > > > > ... here is how to tell your name to git (existing message) ... > > > > After doing the above, run > > > > git commit --amend --reset-author > > > > to fix the identity used for this commit. > > I'm fine with that proposal too. I'll resend with that if no one > objects. Probalby rewording it to Hmm. When I originally wrote that message, I specifically avoided using --reset-author because I figured people would want to most immediately fix the broken commit, and then maybe would not be too lazy to fix things for the future. But that was just a hunch, and I don't feel strongly about it. I was also afraid of people blindly running the fixup command without doing the configuration specified in the commands above. However, I think as long as the text makes it clear that one depends on the other, it should be OK. So something like: > After doing this, you can fix the identity used for this commit with: > > git commit --amend --reset-author looks fine to me. -Peff -- 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