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
wrote:
> My fault completely - I forgot to include the '--author'
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 -a -m "PIRK- description
closes apache/pirk#ZZ"
This way the original author would show