Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > In any case, where does Avery's credit go? Is there a point in helping to > polish others' patches? > > It is recoded on the Signed-off-by line. When somebody passes a patch > from somebody else, an S-o-b is added for DCO purposes, but it also leaves > the "patch trail"---these people looked at the patch, spent effort to make > sure it is suitable for inclusion by reviewing, polishing, and enhancing. > A subsystem maintainer, or anybody who helps to polish others > contribution, may not necessarily have his name as the "author" of the > patch, and if the patch forwarding is done via e-mail, his name won't be > on the "committer" line either. But the contribution is still noted and > appreciated, and the hint to pay attention to is by counting non-author > S-o-b and Tested-by lines in the commit messages. I understand. Thank you for a detailed explanation. -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html