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Committing patches for other people
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 01:58:20PM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote:
> I've gone ahead and committed this for Jordan.
OK, but I'll note that when not using "git am" to commit other
people's patches you should take steps to properly attribute
authorship.
git commit --amend --author="Joe Bloe <joe@somewhere.net>"
As it is, "git blame" shows
741cb83912f (Eric Christopher 2020-02-19 13:55:25 -0800
for objdump.c lines changed by Jordan's patch.
None of this matters very much at the moment, but if we are to move
away from ChangeLogs then we will need to learn better habits.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM