Override author on git merge

Question

Is there an option like --author of git-commit for git-merge?

We maintain a staging environment where some changes must be performed. Some limitations make us to use onl

Answer 1

An alternative could be to set the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL environment variables:

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="A. U. Thor" GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="au@th.or" git merge ...

Answer 2

You can --amend the authorship afterwards if you already did the merge. like that:

git checkout master
git merge my_branch
git commit --amend --author="My Nick <my.adress@email.com>"
git push origin master

This works as desired and adds the specified author to the merge commit. No magic. :)

Answer 3

Try git merge --no-commit ... and then git commit --author ...

Answer 4

First, prevent the merge from creating the commit:

git merge --no-commit …

Then, do the commit manually:

git commit --author="A. U. Thor <au@th.or>"