On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> wrote:

I like to seek one clarification.

I know git has author as well as committer. I am assuming that even if miss-islington backports the PR, the author'ship of the patch is still preserved.

Is that correct?

Thanks, Senthil.

Currently, the original PR author on master will be credited as a co-author on backport PRs.

See this example [1] where it says "2 people authored (miss-islington and csabella) and ncoghlan committed"

If this idea got implemented, I believe it will say "2 people authored (miss-islington and csabella) and miss-islington committed"

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fea0a12f6bee4a36b2c9533003e33a12c58d2d91