On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:35:48PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > > 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. > > If only Git supported options on todo list lines [1], this could be > implemented via a "--use-author" option: > > pick --use-author 1234556 blah > squash 84392ab etc > fixup 49106a5 another > > Happily, this would work with fixup, too, without forcing the user to go > into the editor. Also, it wouldn't require metadata to be read in-band > from the commit message. Yes, that would be nice, but I don't think David is using a sequencer todo list here at all. It's just: git merge --squash pr/100 git commit -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