git-upstage

>If GitHub required email address verification, how would this be done? author data in a commit can be replaced by repository owners. You can replace all old email addresses to new ones https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else https://github.com/SilasX/git-upstage

I remember this earlier subthread where someone was criticizing GitHub for allowing this (even using Torvald as someone to impersonate!), and others offered some defenses (which were IMHO dubious): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21025378 Also, semi-related, obligatory mention of my joke utility for stealing credit for someone else's work: https://github.com/silasx/git-upstage Finally, I thought this phrasing was funny, like commits have a non-substantively transferable ownership, like an NFT (though FYI it's quoting an older discussion of the same problem): >Someone wrote about the whole situation on Medium in November 2021: "The 1st commit of git/git no longer belongs to Linus Torvalds".

Obligatory self-promotion of my opposite joke project, git-upstage, which steals credit for someone else's work. (Squashes their branch to a single commit under your name and backdates it five minutes.) https://github.com/SilasX/git-upstage (Inspired by the time someone typo'd "unstage" to "upstage" and I guessed what a git-upstage command would be.)

Heh, I have a functionally similar joke project that I named git-upstage: https://github.com/SilasX/git-upstage The difference is, this one's focus is on stealing credit for others' work -- it squashes a branch into one commit under your name, and backdates it five minutes.

Should probably use this moment to plug my (opposite) project, git-upstage, which lets you claim credit for someone else's work and backdate it so it looks like you did it first: https://github.com/SilasX/git-upstage

Similarly, nothing stops you altering the time claimed in the commit. Or -- for that matter -- from taking someone's diff and claiming credit for it. For that reason, I jokingly created `git-upstage`, which streamlines the process of abusing commit edits and plagiarizing code! It squashes a branch, backdates it 5 minutes, and claims you wrote it. https://github.com/SilasX/git-upstage Edit: Looks like my last commit left the important stuff commented out and can't fix it at the moment. Ah well, you're going to use the tool to rip it off anyway ;-)