Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req.

[Glenn Morris]

Per Starbäck wrote:

> Also, there is a point about credit that I don't think has been made: Even
> though I don't have write access to the Emacs repository I'm mentioned in
> some Changelogs because of fixes I've mailed when reporting bugs. I think I
> was somewhat thrilled the first times developers put my name there instead
> of their own when checking in those fixes. It is maybe not a big point, but
> still a point, since that feeling can be an impetus to making more fixes.

That's why we encourage use of --author when committing things by other
people.