git: 5b7c17856512 - main - git hooks: Rework authorship instructions.

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:43:46AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:16:16PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:10:26PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > > ...
> > > I agree that author should only be used if a submission is applied
> > > unaltered (pull request/git patch).
> > 
> > Submitted by has always been for submission that was unaltered (or only
> > slightly altered) if it was only the basis of the work, then "submitted
> > by" is not to be used, in those cases, reported by is the correct
> > choice.
> 
> Not really, no.  "PR:/Submitted by:" is canonical combination, yet most
> of us modify submitted patches because they almost always need more work.

Then you are misusing Submitted by.  Submitted by was supposed to be
used when you committed something that was, well, submitted by someone
else.  If the work is yours, and that you based your work on someone
else's, then, it is not submitted by them.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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