tracking committer vs. author

[Jeff Brown <jeff@jeffandbetsy.net>]

I have noticed that when we pull changes from non-committers into our
repo, sometimes meta information about who committed the change to the
repo is included along side info about who actually wrote the changes.
 For example, see
http://github.com/grails/grails/commit/8ac450c37d16b0468ba0f92d3008968fd6a41a75
and note that graemerocher has commit privileges to the repo but
ihotary does not.  ihatory's commit was pulled in by graemerocher.

The commit at http://github.com/grails/grails/commit/ff770359d152683d5794887cd743a10ce7d04501
was also authored by a non committer.  I pulled that change in myself
this evening.  Notice that there is no info displayed there to
indicate that I (jeffbrown) am the person who pushed that change into
the repo.

I don't know what was done differently for those 2 scenarios but both
of those commits were authored by folks who do not have commit
privileges to the repo at
http://github.com/grails/grails/commits/master.

I don't think this is a github issue.  If I am wrong, please let me know.

If I want to track not only who authored the commit but also who
pushed it into the repo (like you see at
http://github.com/grails/grails/commit/8ac450c37d16b0468ba0f92d3008968fd6a41a75),
what is the procedure for making that happen?



jb

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