"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Personally I think it's just clutter, but hey, it's off by default. Of >> course what is the chance that you've turned on status.showauthor in >> your ~/.gitconfig, but you don't have your identity set up properly? :) > > The point is that *someone else* can have showauthor set up in .gitconfig, > and then he'll be able to use git commit --amend to fix up > the identity without using --author explicitly. For that you would need to update git-commit, I think. - 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