Subject: Re: commit --amend --author error

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:24:18 +0100

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