As a side note, I’m personally in favor of the author squashing manually and the “merge” into master using rebase-and-commit.
To your main issue, I’m pretty sure that GitHub doesn’t keep any secret information, instead you are using an insufficiently verbose log command. Try git log --pretty=fuller By default git log just shows the author, and you are looking for the committer (person who merged in the commit). See git-log <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#_pretty_formats> david jencks > On May 16, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > > I wonder what is exactly the problem here? (except a noisy commit but who > cares really compared to the useless noise email notifications when someone > rebase a branch....) > But at least there are real person name. > That's weird because I just used the "Squash and merge' for this PR ( > https://github.com/apache/maven-shared-utils/pull/30) and got nice commit > https://github.com/apache/maven-shared-utils/commit/32942621ff5df2f8779e0f55276c902a1fcb42b9 > Elliotte Maybe something with your GH configuration? > > I have definitely more concerns with this one > https://github.com/apache/maven-shared-utils/commit/bb2f85e98c3c651ae50b7f642500cb74f50abb0d > > some github UI features show it as `dependabot-preview authored and > slachiewicz committed` > But looking at log with a real git tool call 'git' :) I get > > > commit bb2f85e98c3c651ae50b7f642500cb74f50abb0d > Author: dependabot-preview[bot] <27856297+dependabot-preview[bot]@ > users.noreply.github.com> > Date: Mon Mar 9 04:19:41 2020 +0000 > Bump hamcrest-core from 1.3 to 2.2 > Bumps [hamcrest-core](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest) from 1.3 to > 2.2. > - [Release notes](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/releases) > - [Changelog]( > https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/blob/master/CHANGES.md) > - [Commits]( > https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/compare/hamcrest-java-1.3...v2.2) > > Signed-off-by: dependabot-preview[bot] <supp...@dependabot.com> > > And this is totally wrong! we must have a real person name in the commit > logs (and github UI is not the real commit logs). > not sure how to fix that....
