Brian SwetlandNicolas Pitre said, in the thread on the "preserve the committer" patch:
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> I think this is against the purpose of the committer field to preserve > it from a commit that was not made by you. What really really has to be > preserved is the author field of course. But attributing commit action > to someone else than yourself when you are the one reorganizing commits > is misrepresentation.
Which reminds me of a longstanding question I have -- how best to represent patches which have multiple authors?
I'm submitted patches to the linux arm kernel list on behalf of a team of kernel engineers -- drivers that are developed internally are typically squashed down to a single patch for initial submission and review (which seems to be the desired way to handle these things), but in some cases they're the work of multiple people. Is there a better solution than to have one of the authors as the Author: and mentioning the other contributors in the patch description?
Brian