From 98f7e9523749e3148d0d5b5358159b97cbdc5129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Elan=20Ruusam=C3=A4e?= Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 15:57:52 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md it may appear that it's safe thing to do, but rewriting history changes commit id and such repo should not be published --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a9222dc..8ce3182 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,4 +22,6 @@ $ git blame-someone-else This changes not only who authored the commit but the listed commiter as well. It also is something I wrote as a joke, so please don't run this against your production repo and complain if this script deletes everything. +**WARNING**: It changes id of the commit (the hash) and all commits following it, read about [rewriting history](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History) and consequences of that. + *Linus Torvalds didn't really approve of this. It's a joke to prove it works. [See his fake commit here](https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else/commit/e5cfe4bb2190a2ae406d5f0b8f49c32ac0f01cd7)