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Wesley Bland
Wesley Bland

Reputation: 9062

Git signoff commit without changing author

For the project I work on, we use --signoff as the way to approve each other's commits. I know that this isn't the way most projects work, but the model we have is that someone writes a patch, someone else reviews it and --signoff's it, and the original author pushes it into the mainline.

The problem we have is that the original author of the commit goes away after the signoff. When someone does the command to signoff, it usually looks something like this:

git commit --amend --signoff

This of course updates the author field in addition to appending the signoff at the end of the commit message.

Is there a way to achieve the same thing without actually changing the author field? The only option I can see is to go look at the original author field and pass that in with:

--author "John Smith <[email protected]>"

which seems rather clunky and a pain to do every time you want to signoff a commit.

Update:

By popular demand, my .gitconfig:

[user]
    name = Wesley Bland
    email = [email protected]

[color]
    diff = auto
    status = auto
    branch = auto
    ui = auto

[color "status"]
    added = green
    changed = red
    untracked = magenta

[core]
    whitespace = trailing-space,space-before-tab,indent-with-tab
    abbrev = 8
    excludesfile = /Users/wbland/.gitignore_global

[alias]
    graph = log --graph --decorate --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline

[push]
    default = simple

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1305

Answers (1)

Mureinik
Mureinik

Reputation: 311308

git commit (including git commit --ammed --signoff), by default, does not change the author of a commit. In fact, in order to do so, you'd need to explicitly specify you'd like to do so: 

git commit --amend --signoff --reset-author

Upvotes: 2

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