Fix committer name ?

[Michael Gliwinski]

Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 
> At Tue, 26 May 2009 15:08:29 +0900,
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > 
> > Andrew Cowie writes:
> > 
> >  > On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 12:48 +0200, Xavier MAILLARD wrote:
> >  > > I need to read about rebase.
> >  > 
> >  > [as I understand it:]
> >  > 
> >  > Rebasing creates new [completely new] revisions with content similar to
> >  > the set it is replacing.
> > 
> > This is correct, except that the content is *identical*.  So if Xavier
> > merges his rebased branch with the old head *immediately*, he should
> > get zero conflicts.  I wonder if this might not be a solution for
> > Xavier:
> > 
> > 1. create a copy branch
> > 2. rebase the original
> > 3. merge *from* the copy into the (rebased) original
> > 4. have downstream merge as usual
> 
> Maybe I am too stupid but I tried that:
> 
> 1. bzr branch (to get a copy)
> 2. bzr rebase
> => No revisions to rebase
> 
> I am not sure I understand all of this after all.
> 
> Plus, bzr-rebase is not very clear (no examples) of what and how
> things should be done.
> 
> Xavier
> 
> 

I have the same problem with two of my projects.  Was wondering have you ever 
figured out how to fix that (with rebase or otherwise)?

I've had a look at rebase but I must admit I also don't see how it should 
allow you to change the committer/author.  Also I have the bad committer name 
only on some of the revisions as I work on the code from different locations 
(in different branches) and merge from time to time (i.e. whoami was wrong 
only in one of those locations).

Any advice?

Thanks,
Michael