Misattributed authorship in commit log here on Github
If you look here (current page for earliest commits in Bitcoin),
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/master?page=289
you can see that commits done by sirius-m are attributed to Greg Maxwell.
This does not seem to be a problem with the import from SVN, as the committers show up correctly in a ‘git log’. This also matches the info in the old SVN (still available on sourceforge).
Rather, it seems to be an issue or a misconfiguration on github.
I didn’t check whether there are more issues like this.
I have no clue— I’ll have to re-nag github; unless it’s just caching. None of them are configured in my account. (The only two configured there are my gmail and xiph.org email addresses)
Re-opening this issue as it was messed up again recently.
Same as before, old Satoshi commits are misattributed to saracen: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/f1e1fb4bdef878c8fc1564fa418d44e7541a7e83
I’ve written Github twice about this, but it’s taking long to fix this time.
The first time I did this I remember notifying somebody. I can’t find the chat transcript now, I thought it happened in the bitcoin dev IRC channel, but maybe not? I also reported the problem to Github, although it may have been specifically to a developer I know that works there.
At some point, the problem appeared fixed, I was no longer the author. A few weeks/months ago I was able to attribute myself again as the author, using exactly the same method as the first time.
What you want to do about this is up to you. You could create a new account, or assign it to one of your own accounts. Or wait for Github to fix the issue.
I think github fixed it. They attribute all commits with an invalid email
address to https://github.com/invalid-email-address
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Arran Walker notifications@github.com wrote:
The first time I did this I remember notifying somebody. I can’t find the chat transcript now, I thought it happened in the bitcoin dev IRC channel, but maybe not? I also reported the problem to Github, although it may have been specifically to a developer I know that works there.
At some point, the problem appeared fixed, I was no longer the author. A few weeks/months ago I was able to attribute myself again as the author, using exactly the same method as the first time.
What you want to do about this is up to you. You could create a new account, or assign it to one of your own accounts. Or wait for Github to fix the issue.
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