Since the message advise to fix the configuration first, the advantage of this command is that it is cut-and-paste ready, while using --author='...' requires the user to type his name and email a second time. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> --- Sorry, I did a resend the other day, which was plain wrong (I had the changes in my tree, but sent before commit--amend-ing). This one should be OK. builtin/commit.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index 22ba54f..03cff5a 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ static const char implicit_ident_advice[] = " 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" +"After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:\n" "\n" -" git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@xxxxxxxxxxx>'\n"; +" git commit --amend --reset-author\n"; static const char empty_amend_advice[] = "You asked to amend the most recent commit, but doing so would make\n" -- 1.7.4.rc0.2.g3e22c.dirty -- 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