A quick hack that might be fragile, but also Just Might Work for most cases: #473
Description
A quick hack that might be fragile, but also Just Might Work for most cases:
git commit -am message --author=.
per the docs
git-commit assumes the --author argument to be of the form: A U Thor <author@example.com>.
Otherwise is assumed to be a pattern and is used to search for an existing commit by that author (i.e. rev-list --all -i --author=); the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found.
So, in short: commit --author=. should copy the authorship from the previous commit since . as a regex will match all commits.
Originally posted by @jasonkarns in #13 (comment)