"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> When e-mailed message has garbage at the beginning (e.g. "Hi!"), >> git users can either run "commit --amend" immiediately after >> "git am", > > This one would overwrite the authorship information though, > would it not? I actually wished several times for an --amend-message > commit flag that would only edit the message, preserving the author > (and possibly date?) metadata. > Of course, I simply copy the author and pass it in --author, > but it's somewhat awkward to do. Do others notice this? > > *Maybe* git can be even smarter, and notice that only > commit message has changed, and preserve the author automatically > in this case? I haven't looked at how hard that would be to do. Maybe you can try what you complain about out before you rant? I amend other people's commit messages after the fact almost *every* *day*. - 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