From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: commit --amend --author error Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:24:18 +0100 Message-ID: <54B50062.3090209@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <54B4D428.2050300@irisgermanica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Gunnar Wagner , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 13 12:24:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YAzaC-0006ug-6a for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:24:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751501AbbAMLYU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:24:20 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:46023 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355AbbAMLYT (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:24:19 -0500 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68EF9207A2 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:24:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:24:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:message-id:date:from :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=tMBnJE099CpIgxLrVZhzCE 8TVM8=; b=Uho1IlmwP9dmaTvOXXIOFhgqjeqLf6Bi/EpH3qefRbSb18Cz+t4Tp2 OFsNVxfxrZa2HHAV8sexAM2kGRvhEs05TecnLnCa9zBvwsboloWjB4e75zZdrMF4 lUBlo4TuSxMnl4LwJOGJvjc/HIGukbVRoQOop1Elnh8vAiPHRy2/4= X-Sasl-enc: 3XD7st0GCLvLpuv0L1H3SBQoUfaln1EFnRybqwy5iBbE 1421148259 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [130.75.46.56]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DA71FC00018; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:24:18 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <54B4D428.2050300@irisgermanica.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Gunnar Wagner schrieb am 13.01.2015 um 09:15: > I got APGL licensed code from someone else and want to post it on my > github (without taking credit for the work) > > tried git commit --amend --author="Author name, www.website.com" but > got an error message which said something like "original author not found" > Can it be that the --amen --author only work if the author is on github > himself? > This has nothing to do with github. The author has be in the form "authorname ". The important parts for the format are the <>. Michael