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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:07:58 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 5b7c17856512 - main - git hooks: Rework authorship instructions.
Message-ID:  <YIFK/tIpcfqWTWVh@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202104220952.13M9qJNE092982@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202104220952.13M9qJNE092982@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:52:19AM +0000, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> ...
> diff --git a/.hooks/prepare-commit-msg b/.hooks/prepare-commit-msg
> @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ $(awk '1;/^#$/{exit}' "$1")
>  # <then a blank line>
>  #                                                         72 columns --|
>  #
> +# Do not add a Submitted by line.  If someone besides the committer sent in the
> +# change, the commit author should be set using \`git commit --author\`.
> +#

This doesn't seem right.  "Submitted by" can be a list, not a single name.
Also, I rarely commit submitted work verbatim, so technically the author
is me 99% of the time, yet it would be appropriate to give attribution to
the original submitter, esp. if there is no PR number (private submission).

./danfe



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