19 Nov
2011
19 Nov
'11
3:41 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 20:41, Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> wrote:
Generally speaking, it's more useful for the checkin metadata to reflect who actually did the checkin, since that's the most useful information for the tracker and buildbot integration.
At least in git, the commit metadata contains both author and committer (at least if they differ). Maybe mercurial has this too?
It does not. Personally, I find it more appropriate to have the original patch author in the "official" metadata, mostly because I personally find it very satisfying to see my name in the changelog on hgweb and the like. My own experience with that makes me think that it's probably helpful in engaging contributors. Cheers, Dirkjan