I just saw a patch I created on github attributed to “mark@freekbox.(none)”. That’s nothing like an email I use and it’s annoying that git not only selected this as my identity to use in the commit log, but then didn’t even run it by me for a reality check. Now that I’ve committed that patch and pushed it to github, there’s no real way to alter that. Extra annoying.
By contrast, the first time you record a patch in a darcs repo, you are prompted for your e-mail address in a friendly way:
$ darcs record
Darcs needs to know what name (conventionally an email address)
to use as the patch author, e.g. 'Fred Bloggs <fred@bloggs.invalid>'.
If you provide one now it will be stored in the file
'_darcs/prefs/author' and used as a default in the future.
To change your preferred author address, simply delete or edit
this file.
What is your email address?
Easy and pleasant.
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Not quite correct. Fix the commit with "git reset", then "git push -f" to fix it on github.
@Jonathon
I am going to weigh in here, because I believe that that is not the point. That you can have some arcane incantation to rewind and redo the mistakes is useful, if you have a few hours to kill wading through the docs and google searches.
The point was that this mistake should NEVER have occurred in the _first_ place, and was completely due to horrible UI. I use git and darcs, and darcs wins hands down in the UI department, and it is a very important department, despite what the git world thinks.