Linus Torvalds wrote:
This isn't a problem with things like "Signed-off-by:" etc tags, because they have no automated meaning and don't really change the commit itself, but the "From:"/"Date:"/"Subject:" markers at the head of the message really do have real meaning, and get removed from the commit message and instead get put into the SCM headers.
It may be worth having a definitive and unambiguous Author: tag then, which can appear among Signed-off-by:s and is used in preference to anything else. From: is a useful heuristic which seems to work well in general, but as you say, it gets a bit hairy when you have something which means different things to different parts of the software stack at the same time.
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