Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 thought David was primarily interested in the case where a branch authored by a single person, so specifying the tip of the branch being "merged" would be sufficient, no? -- 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