lt;author&gt;</dt>
<dd>
<p>Override the commit author. Specify an explicit author using the
standard <code>A U Thor &lt;author@example.com&gt;</code> 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.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">--date=&lt;date&gt;</dt>
<dd>
<p>Override the author date used in the commit.</p>
</dd>
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