Git Blame-Someone-Else

Re:Git Blame-Someone-Else by saagarjha on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:49AM (#36184584)

It's actually a pretty convenient script to use locally when doing repository manipulation, for example when you're cherry-picking other people's commit via patch and want to attribute it to them.

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Re:Git Blame-Someone-Else by ahrzb on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:00AM (#36184632)

But changing commit author is quite easy with git, just do: ‘git commit -a —author “<name+email>”’

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Re:Git Blame-Someone-Else by saagarjha on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:48AM (#36184868)

I often need to change the author on commits that aren't the topmost one.

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Re:Git Blame-Someone-Else by rurban on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:21AM (#36185048)

Then do it via rebase -i and e. I do that constantly,

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Re:Git Blame-Someone-Else by saagarjha on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @08:38AM (#36211711)

Yeah, but that's more annoying ;)

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