From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:05:11 GMT Subject: Re: How do I set the committer with cherry-pick? (or is there a better way to get changes from someone?) Message-ID: <7vhcefvoeg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <810a540e0804051642r79dc10a7h2a231561062b13ea@mail.gmail.com> "Pat Maddox" writes: > At this point the commits are in the repo, but they only have author > information. I'd like to specify that I'm the one who committed this > change now. How can I do that? You've already done that. They are not what you _wrote_ so your name won't be on "Author:" lines, but you made into commits in the final history, and your name would appear on "Committer:" lines. Try "log --pretty=fuller". > And finally, is this a good way to incorporate changes from other > devs? Is there a better way? A _better way_, especially because you are already pulling from them, would be just "pull", without having to cherry-pick to clean-up the history. The reason you are being forced to cherry-pick is probably _their_ histories you pulled are suboptimal and full of garbage commit, containing irrelevant changes you do not want to include in the mainline you maintain. Have _THEM_ clean their act and prepare clean history that consists only of relevant commits. Shift as much burden as possible to the contributors; otherwise the central integrator will become the bottleneck in the process.