On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 That's correct. I certainly know how to do git checkout pr/100 git rebase -i master # set things to squash, etc git checkout master git merge pr/100 # or cherry-pick or whatever And that's how I always used to do it. But `merge --squash` is so much more convenient... except for the minor wrinkle of needing an extra manual step to give the original author their credit. --dave -- glasser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | langtonlabs.org | flickr.com/photos/glasser/ -- 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