[ntalbott]

You may think of commits as literal quotations of the "Author", but it's important to realize that git doesn't. If you want to know who's ultimately responsible for a commit, you always want to look at the "Committer" since that's who actually signed on the dotted line so to speak.

[nirvdrum]

I'm not concerned with who's ultimately responsible for the commit. I'm concerned with being called the author on something I didn't write. These distinctions are not made or enforced by git. At the end of the day, it's how humans interpret two pieces of metadata.

The first hit on Google and Bing for "git committer vs author" brings up this SO entry:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18750808/difference-betwe...

So, I don't think I'm taking some fringe view here. For my part, I don't think I want someone else writing code and putting my name on it.