"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

quoted text
> If I got the author wrong on a commit, is there a quick way to fix it
> (e.g. by passing the right arguments or environment variables to commit
> --amend)?

I usually do "format-patch -$n; reset --hard HEAD~$n; edit
00??-*.patch; am 00??-*.patch" myself when I got into that
situation to rebuild the branch, and haven't personally felt
need for an option to --amend, but it might make sense to teach
git-commit --amend to allow --author option to override it; I
think it currently ignores --author when given without erroring
out.

It may become a question if we would want to allow updating the
timestamp as well, but when people asked for --author I did not
hear from anybody who wanted to have --authortime, so not being
able to do so probably is Ok.


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