Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: use same commit's message and date with f -C

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Mathias
>
> On 24/09/2025 16:21, Mathias Rav wrote:
>> I have never used the "amend!" autosquash feature and I was not
>> aware of
>> it until I stepped through the code in sequencer.c to implement my
>> proposed change. I think the `git commit --amend` manual explains quite
>> nicely why you could want to keep the author of one commit and the
>> message of another.
>> Before discovering "f -C" to achieve the "fixdown" behavior, as
>> Hannes
>> describes, I used "x f" to invoke my own single-letter shell script to
>> achieve the behavior I wanted, and I guess I am fine with going back to
>> that for the cases where I want to preserve author dates (which, to be
>> fair, is often not that important to me).
>
> I'd be happy to see a patch that implemented a new option for "fixup"
> that copied the author. As the discussion that Oswald linked to shows
> this is not the first time someone has wanted this functionality. The
> issue is that we don't want to change the existing behavior, not that
> we don't want to support this via a different option.

Yup, thanks for stating this more clealy than I would.