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


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