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Asked: 2026-05-15T11:14:08+00:00

I’ve done a manual cherry pick of a commit from one project into my

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I’ve done a manual cherry pick of a commit from one project into my git project, and I’d like to give credit to the true author by faking the author info somehow for this one commit, so that the true author is the author, and I am the committer.

Any idea how to do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can specify the author as parameter to git commit:

    git commit --author='Erik Vold <ErikVold@gmail.com>' ....
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