On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 06:34:46PM +0900, Dong Wook Lee wrote: > First of all, thank you for merging my patch. > And I'm sorry, I should have been more careful about it. Next time I > will follow format. And there is something I will tell you
We are all here to learn. It is good to begin with small contributions to get a sense of how the project works, so I think that you are doing well. > Because many opensource hackers who interested in > PostgreSQL project can want to keep a record of author info > on commits they wrote. Otherwise, contribution records can not be found > by 'git shortlog -sn' and GitHub and OpenHub cannot track their > opensource contribution records... > > So what about using --author for PostgreSQL contributors > when merging their patches? like the Linux Kernel project That may be something to discuss with the project policy per-se. When it comes to credit people, committers list authors, reviewers, reporters, etc. directly in the commit log. And your name is mentioned in 64725728, I made sure of it. The latest discussions we had about the commit log format involved encouraging as much as possible the use of a "Discussion" tag in commit logs, the rest depends on each committer, and nobody uses --author. -- Michael
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