On 17/07/16 17:34, Suneel Marthi 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 😏 )
Yep, it is important to maintain author for traceability of contributions. There's no harm in having a few committers' scripts checked into Git to help out. Regards, Tim
