Re: Disabling of "merge commits" and "squash merge" on Github

[Julian Hyde]

> On Jan 4, 2019, at 6:37 AM, Michael Mior <mm...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> What we've done in the past is to add the original author's name in
> parentheses to the commit message. Not ideal, but better than losing the
> attribution entirely.

Let’s not do that. The author’s name must be in the git commit’s “author” field.

Our "author’s name in parentheses” practice serves some other purposes - e.g. 
giving credit to new contributors in the release notes - but it’s not a panacea.

Julian