Hi devs, A recent question by new contributor (thread: Git Pull Request to HBase) and looking at history of commits, i think it is worth re-iterating that committer should use *git am* while committing patches so that whoever did the actual work gets appropriate credit in git history. In case the patch uploaded is unformatted patch (without author tag), please use *git commit --author=<foo>.* I don't think we should be lax about it as a community if the original author doesn't get appropriate credit.
Thanks -- Appy
