Am 24.12.20 um 23:21 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > I wonder if we deliberately designed how each insn you can write in > the todo list should come up with the authorship data (i.e. ident > and timestamp), or if we are just using the natural consequence of > how the implementation happens to work? I think it makes sense for > "fixup", as an instruction used to make a small tweak to the bulk of > work you've done some time ago, to use the authorship information of > the original commit that gets fixed up. I don't know offhand what > other insns like "edit", "reword", etc. do, and if there is a room > to improve them. For 'squash' it was a deliberate decision to keep authorship of the first commit, see 81ab1cb43a87. Initially, 'edit' changed authorship including the date to the current author and date; that was changed to preserve them, but I cannot find the responsible commit. -- Hannes
