Re: [gnome-flashback] [gnome-panel] Fix window-list applet bug on vertical panel 03_tasklist_orientation.patch from debian. This require

[Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu>]

Hi Alberts,

Am 18.06.2014 00:49, schrieb Alberts Muktupāvels:
> >      > If you know how to fix that than please go ahead and set
> > correct author.
> >     Again more work for me, because you are too lazy to do it
> > correctly when
> >     importing the patch into git ? No thanks.
>
> How to fix that? I tried with 'git rebase -i -p' to change author and
> reformat some of my commit messages, but history rewriting is
> disallowed. Than how I am supposed to fix that?

Figure out the author (and if possible the original patch date) from the
patch metadata.
I usually fix up the patch, so it has a proper "From" header, and
applies cleanly with git-am.

Alternatively, use --author and --date when doing git commit.

For patches that are already in your local branch, when you
 a) cherry-pick a single patch, or
 b) do an interactive rebase like you tried (with an "edit" at every
relevant step)
you can then
  git commit --amend --author=... --date=...

Now you have a clean commit with all the data locally.

You are right, you are not allowed to push such a "rewritten" history to
Gnome's git.
But as you won't push to the master branch for now anyhow, that's no
problem.
Push it as
  git push origin features/$MYNEWFEATURE
if the feature branch is a work in progress, and send it with
  git format-patch --in-reply-to=$MESSAGE_ID_OF_COVER_LETTER ...
to this list for review when it is ready.

Cheers
  Philipp

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Philipp Kaluza
Ghostroute IT Consulting