Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
We do signed commits, as well. Presumably, if you were wanting to do this type of thing (giving credit where credit's due), you'd want to disable signing for the commit.
That said, no matter who the original code-author is, (at least in our organization) if you push breakage into the project because you were effectively vouching for someone else's code, you'll get the blame. Similar rule applies to designated approvers that approve a merge to a protected branch.
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This is why we sign commits!
Oh this is great thanks!
We do signed commits, as well. Presumably, if you were wanting to do this type of thing (giving credit where credit's due), you'd want to disable signing for the commit.
That said, no matter who the original code-author is, (at least in our organization) if you push breakage into the project because you were effectively vouching for someone else's code, you'll get the blame. Similar rule applies to designated approvers that approve a merge to a protected branch.