Re: [paho-dev] Changing author of the C++ Git Commit

[Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/03/2014 6:48 AM, Ian Craggs wrote:
> When I added the C++ code to the repo last autumn, I didn't set the 
> author on the commit (I was just learning).  I've learned how to 
> correct this in my local history, but I'm not allowed to push the 
> changes to the repo, even with a force.  I'm always asked to merge the 
> changes and get a combined history.
>
> Any thoughts on the best approach?  If I could get a history which 
> showed me correcting the author of the initial commit, I would be 
> happy with that.  Or I could get the repository reinitialized and 
> start again (the only other commits are my adding of legal docs). 

Just a suggestion, but you may want to ask the webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx 
team for help. Those guys have some serious git foo.

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Mike Milinkovich
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