From 8d74313257c17c24c5537c91d8b976f3c42d9ce3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clemens Lieb <Vogel612@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:56:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add reset-author and no-edit to author rewriting (#169)

---
 README.md | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b4b1b84..807edca 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -142,7 +142,13 @@ If you have already pushed the message, you can amend the commit and force push,
 If it's a single commit, amend it
 
 ```sh
-$ git commit --amend --author "New Authorname <authoremail@mydomain.com>"
+$ git commit --amend --no-edit --author "New Authorname <authoremail@mydomain.com>"
+```
+
+An alternative is to correctly configure your author settings in `git config --global author.(name|email)` and then use
+
+```sh
+$ git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit
 ```
 
 If you need to change all of history, see the man page for `git filter-branch`.