Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13 v2] pseries: savevm / migration support

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

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 <address@hidden>"

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