I just committed a message with 'git am' because the author took the trouble to write a sweet commit message. Others have been taking the trouble to write useful commit messages but up to this I've been just applying patches with patch with a commit message that is the issue number, subject, and author only rather than git apply or git am.
On the tail of HBASE-4593, Misty is looking for clarification. I suggest that if contributor wrote a nice commit message that leads off with issue number and issue subject, going forward, we preserve their work and apply using git am --signoff? You cowboys and cowgirls have any opinions? St.Ack
