I wasn't advocating this, just explaining what has been done in the past. If the squash merge button on GitHub keeps authorship, I would prefer to keep that enabled.
-- Michael Mior [email protected] Le ven. 4 janv. 2019 à 12:06, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > On Jan 4, 2019, at 6:37 AM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> 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 > >
