Saturday, August 26, 2017
Changing the author name for git gerrit commit
Changing the author name for git gerrit commit
So this was my second time having some adventure with gerrit for OpenDaylight (also read about the first time, if you are curious). This time, I pulled the remote changes and tried to commit my new changes by adding my changes. This created a merge as the commit from the remote repository and my local commits merged in a single pull request, and hence my commit failed with the below message.
$ git review
You are about to submit multiple commits. This is expected if you are
submitting a commit that is dependent on one or more in-review
commits. Otherwise you should consider squashing your changes into one
commit before submitting.
The outstanding commits are:
fe17631 (HEAD, master) Fix bug 4535/4541
475fae6 Use odlparent-lite as artifacts parent
Do you really want to submit the above commits?
Type yes to confirm, other to cancel: yes
remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, done
To ssh://pradeeban@git.opendaylight.org:29418/messaging4transport.git
! [remote rejected] HEAD -> refs/publish/master/bug/4535 (you are not allowed to upload merges)
error: failed to push some refs to ssh://pradeeban@git.opendaylight.org:29418/messaging4transport.git
Now,
$ git statusOn branch master
Your branch is ahead of origin/master by 2 commits.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working directory clean
Your branch is ahead of origin/master by 2 commits.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working directory clean
So it indeed shows as 2 commits - one mine, and the one pulled from the remote repository.
I had to rebase to the master fix this.
$ git rebase origin/master
However, this left my commit attributed to the author of the previous commit in the commit log, when I try to git review.
I had to amend the author to finally fix the commit message successfully git review following that.
$ git commit --amend --author "FirstName LastName "
