9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
3:24 a.m.
So, cheers to RobRoy for making the right kind of commit message! Now that I've personally felt the joy of getting a "thanks greggles" for my patches and now that I've seen the same (de)motivation in other people I feel justified in pointing out commit messages that leave out credit.
Here is a simple way to look at it: they only way the committer pays for the patch is to leave credit. I do not want to be harsh here but you are stealing the poor guy's work if you do not leave credit. It's not a big effort and until you have felt a bitter taste in your mouth after worked your ass off just to be left uncredited, you have no idea how bad it feels. Regards, NK