Question

I was recommeneded to use git pull –rebase in order to avoid the auto merge messages that git adds when pulling changes from a remote repository.

When doing so, i see that commits that are being applied on my repository during the rebase are added as if they were committed by me, and not by the original committer.

Is this the standard behavior? or am i doing something wrong here ?

Answer 1

There’s nothing wrong here: git rebase creates new commits, as they have different ancestors and possibly different content, and these new commits are created by you.

However Git makes distinction between commit name and date, and author name and date, the latter being the name and date of the original commit.