On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Mark Grover <[email protected]> wrote: > The commit is still attributed to the contributor but I think it would be > nice for logistical reasons to have the committer name in the log messages > of the commit.
I would be curious to hear more about why you think this would be helpful. The reason I'm asking is that Git is different from SVN in this respect -- with SVN comments are the only place for this info while Git tracks committers separately anyway. > Anyways, I have started documenting this at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+Contribute > > Please let me know what you think! Great start! Perhaps add a link to it onto our website (patch, please ;-))? Thanks, Roman.
