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

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

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.

./danfe