<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10299">By substituting the author string with obvious garbage-- like only allowing the <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10300">word "dingus" to be shown there. :)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10526" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10591" dir="ltr">I used git format-patch to make the patch, then git apply with --stat and --check <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_11403" dir="ltr">to look at some meta-data and see if it would apply correctly. Finally, I used <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_11402" dir="ltr">git-am to apply the patch. I don't believe any of those steps actually show <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_12353" dir="ltr">you the author name and email addy used in the patch. Even visually perusing <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_11697" dir="ltr">the diff it's not something I tend to look closely at.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_12504" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_12652" dir="ltr">I guess I'd be a bit happier if git required the committer to explicitly <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_12743" dir="ltr">transfer authorship in this case (either with a flag or a separate command). <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_14802" dir="ltr">"Foo typed 'Linus' here" is better than "someone typed 'Linus' and maybe <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_13981" dir="ltr">Foo is validating that it was Linus, or maybe Foo did not notice, or maybe <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_13980" dir="ltr">Foo does not care...".<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_15297"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_15196">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_11833" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_11626"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_11566"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_11251" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10527" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10305"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10419"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10359"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10382"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10413"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10577"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462408341439_10002"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, May 5, 2016 12:16 AM, Chris McCormick <chris@mccormick.cx> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Hi Jonathan,<br clear="none"><div class="yqt3188110803" id="yqtfd80028"><br clear="none">On 05/05/16 05:54, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-dev wrote:<br clear="none">> However, the user-friendly tools that wrap around<br clear="none">> git (github, gitlab, etc.) don't make this clear as you<br clear="none">> can hopefully see. :)</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Also, without signed commits (which are the exception rather than the <br clear="none">rule) I am curious as to how you think user-friendly tools could make <br clear="none">this clear, or even know it was happening?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Chris.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mccormick.cx/" target="_blank">http://mccormick.cx/</a><div class="yqt3188110803" id="yqtfd65923"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>