Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:12:29 +0100
> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 05:19, Karl Fogel <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I didn't realize that you'd already established that the semantics of
> > '--author' are what you want
> 
> It's difficult to know, because the help for commit talks a bit about
> author, and other than that there seems to be not much documentation
> about setting the author vs. the committer (or likely, there is a lot
> such documentation but I haven't found it). But the semantics would
> have to be very weird to make incorrect to set the real author of the
> committed code :-)

Type

  bzr log -r "revid:address@hidden"

and see there what syntax I used.

It's the same syntax as in "bzr whoami", I simply submitted the string
you see in the log of the above revision, enclosed in quotes.