On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Regarding Justin's comment about patch attribution: in the larger scheme of > applying patches, regardless of the underlying SCM, credits to the > contributor are normally relegated to the commit message or changelog or > similar places. i don't feel that we need to record a _fossil_ user name for > the contributor because that implies that the user has an account on the > repo the patch is being applied to (which he presumably doesn't have, or > he'd be committing the code himself), and that such a name does not conflict > with an existing account holder's name (which would lead to incorrect > attribution). > > Agreed. But if you really, really wanted to record the contributors name as the committer, you do have the option of editing the committer after the commit occurs. And, there is the undocumented --user-override option to the "commit" command that lets you specify any committer name you want. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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