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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
