Re: antisocial things you can do in git (but not CVS)

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org> wrote:
>> My preference would be to stick to a style where we identify the
>> committer using the author tag and note the patch author, reviewers,
>> whether the committer made changes, etc. in the commit message.
>
> An aside: as a patch author (and elsewhere, as a committer), it's nice
> when the log shows the author rather than the committer. Will we really
> have so many patches with multiple authors or other complications that
> we can't set the author by default and fall back to explanations in the
> commit message (e.g. "applied with changes") for more complicated cases?

Tom Lane rewrites part of nearly every commit, and even I change maybe
30% of them.

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