Commit IDs are a hash of that commit and all previous commits. If you do that it changes every single commit hash since the broken commit. That then breaks any tracking of commit IDs, eg Jira, commit logs, people's own notes etc. It also breaks anyone else's checkouts, and every other checkout / fork off FreeSWITCH in existence. The commit in question is from 2014, so you'd be affecting 3 years of commits. It's just not worth the pain it would cause just so you can fork onto github.

On 25 August 2017 at 06:47, Sergey Safarov <s.safarov@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Mike
If i will create new fork/branch and will do rebase and fix multiple 'author' commits, then can you accept rebased branch as master?

Sergey

чт, 24 авг. 2017 г. в 19:22, Michael Jerris <mike@jerris.com>:
That requires rewriting commit history all the way back to there.  We won’t be doing that.  You can make forks it our stash.


On Aug 24, 2017, at 12:15 PM, Sergey Safarov <s.safarov@gmail.com> wrote:

Could team developers fix multiple 'author' for commits 487128950df6ee433c131b5feaafe81ee86629f4 and 8574988c3a378b4d5861ecaeb0e958657635703b.
Without this to to difficult fork repo and late to track changes on GitHub

home$ git fsck
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
error in commit 487128950df6ee433c131b5feaafe81ee86629f4: multipleAuthors: invalid format - multiple 'author' lines
error in commit 8574988c3a378b4d5861ecaeb0e958657635703b: multipleAuthors: invalid format - multiple 'author' lines
Checking objects: 100% (306371/306371), done.

 
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