As a general rule, we *always* preserve patch's author information in the commits.
There have been, however, occasions where more than one contributors have worked together on a single feature and whenever it had made sense, voluntarily squashed commits under a single contributor's name. Even in such cases, the commit retains one of the original contributor's information. Mongo storage plugin [1] is one such example. [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-drill/commit/2ca9c907bff639e08a561eac32e0acab3a0b3304 On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:27 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The github listing is not a valid measure since many non-committer (and > > quite a few committer) changes were squashed into larger commits. > > > > Why is author information not being preserved? Committer and author > are different entities with Git. 'git apply' would preserve that > author information for non-committers (and non-committing committers) > (and still show the committer who committed it) > > --David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
