Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.1-251-g92a7

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@@ -474,10 +474,11 @@ that, you can recover from it with <em>git reset</em>.</p></div>
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-        Override the author name used in the commit.  You can use the

-        standard <tt>A U Thor &lt;author@example.com&gt;</tt> format.  Otherwise,

-        an existing commit that matches the given string and its author

-        name is used.

+        Override the commit author. Specify an explicit author using the

+        standard <tt>A U Thor &lt;author@example.com&gt;</tt> format. Otherwise &lt;author&gt;

+        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=&lt;author&gt;);

+        the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found.

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@@ -1005,7 +1006,7 @@ Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;</p></div>
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-Last updated 2010-05-09 07:24:18 UTC

+Last updated 2010-06-08 05:53:44 UTC

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