I am far from being a Git expert but I end up on this page a lot: https://ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to-create-and-apply-a-patch-with-git/
Joe On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Ellison Anne Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > My fault completely - I forgot to include the '--author' option in the > commits when closing pull requests. Will do this from now on... > > Thanks for catching it Suneel! > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am seeing that the original author of a PR is being wiped out while >> committing the PRs to the codebase. >> >> The 'git commit' command to retain the original author as contributor is: >> >> git commit --author <contributor_email> -a -m "PIRK-XXXX description >> closes apache/pirk#ZZ" >> >> >> This way the original author would show up amongst the project contributors >> on github (and build community 😏 ) >>
