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Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

On 06/04/2013 10:42 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 04.06.2013 14:20, schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy:
>> I still have to learn how to force git not to overwrite the original commit author :-/
>> Is there any way to tell the original creator in the commit message so it could live
>> in a git forever and survive commit changes?
> 
> To fix it up:
> 
> git commit --amend --author="Foo Bar <foo@bar>"

Then I have to recall about every patch whether it is mine or not. Annoying :(


> If you cherry-pick patches in the first place, the author gets preserved
> and you can update them as part of git-rebase or do your modifications
> using just git commit --amend.
> 
> Note that at least one patch was Author: instead of From: and at least
> one two From:s.

git removed "From" from some patch commit messages and left in others :-/


-- 
Alexey