Thanks , Appy. For understanding because i am very new to open source
contribution.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Apekshit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

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