On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:21:04AM -0800, David Glasser wrote: > (I'm not sure if this should be a flag to --squash or to commit. > Maybe `git merge --squash`; `git commit --use-squashed-author`? Seems > like it should be not too hard to implement; SQUASH_MSG is pretty > parseable. Or just a config value.) It sounds like "git commit -c" is close to what you want, which will pull the author and commit message from a particular commit. But I don't think there is a convenient way to name the commit in your case (it is likely to be the first commit on the branch you are squash-merging, but there isn't a shorthand for that). I assume you are already munging in your editor the template provided by "git commit" after the squash? What would be really nice, IMHO, is if there was a way to set the author during that edit (e.g., by moving one of the "Author:" lines to the top of the file). That would cover your use case, I think, and would also be useful in general. -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