Re: How do I set the committer with cherry-pick? (or is there a better way to get changes from someone?)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Pat Maddox" <pergesu@gmail.com> writes:

> At this point the commits are in the repo, but they only have author
> information.  I'd like to specify that I'm the one who committed this
> change now.  How can I do that?

You've already done that.  They are not what you _wrote_ so your name
won't be on "Author:" lines, but you made into commits in the final
history, and your name would appear on "Committer:" lines.

Try "log --pretty=fuller".

> And finally, is this a good way to incorporate changes from other
> devs?  Is there a better way?

A _better way_, especially because you are already pulling from them,
would be just "pull", without having to cherry-pick to clean-up the
history.

The reason you are being forced to cherry-pick is probably _their_
histories you pulled are suboptimal and full of garbage commit, containing
irrelevant changes you do not want to include in the mainline you
maintain.  Have _THEM_ clean their act and prepare clean history that
consists only of relevant commits.  Shift as much burden as possible to
the contributors; otherwise the central integrator will become the
bottleneck in the process.