Vladimír Čunát writes: > On 01/14/2014 03:01 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: >> But the committer is not shown in GitHub email messages, and tends to get >> lost >> if you do things like cherry-picking into another branch, or commiting a pull >> request from somebody else. > > Github accounts for this "author" wrongly... it collects all with bogus > e-mail address (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors). > > I mainly see the technical problem... it doesn't seem you can use "git > am" with committer taken as the author as well. We could generate just > diffs instead of patches, but that's more cumbersome to apply, mainly > because of commit description.
Please don't, patches are much more convenient. > Can you see *how* to do this practically? Nixpkgs-Monitor could get its own email address. The current approach looks correct to me: Nixpkgs-Monitor is the original author of the patch, and applying this patch merely makes you the committer, not the author. -- Moritz Ulrich
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