From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Gunnar Wagner <gunnar.wagner@irisgermanica•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit --amend --author error
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:24:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B50062.3090209@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B4D428.2050300@irisgermanica.com>
Gunnar Wagner schrieb am 13.01.2015 um 09:15:
> I got APGL licensed code from someone else and want to post it on my
> github (without taking credit for the work)
>
> tried git commit --amend --author="Author name, www.website.com" but
> got an error message which said something like "original author not found"
> Can it be that the --amen --author only work if the author is on github
> himself?
>
This has nothing to do with github.
The author has be in the form "authorname <authoremail>". The important
parts for the format are the <>.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-13 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-13 8:15 commit --amend --author error Gunnar Wagner
2015-01-13 11:24 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2015-01-14 12:09 ` Jeff King
2015-01-15 14:21 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 14:23 ` [PATCH] commit: reword --author error message Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 14:25 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 14:31 ` Jeff King
2015-01-15 14:40 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-16 9:32 ` Jeff King
2015-01-16 17:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-16 18:33 ` Philip Oakley
2015-01-16 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-16 19:37 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-01-16 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-26 15:48 ` [PATCHv2] " Michael J Gruber
2015-01-26 19:07 ` Jeff King
2015-01-27 2:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-27 2:45 ` Jeff King
2015-01-27 8:37 ` Philip Oakley
2015-01-27 12:22 ` Ramsay Jones
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