Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git

[Derek Scherger]

Justin Patrin wrote:
> Signer and author are different things. I can sign something but set
> you as the author if I wished. This is often used (in OpenEmbedded) to
> commit patches for people who don't have push access to a server.

It has also been used in the past when history was rebuilt/rewritten
because of revision format changes and such. The person rebuilding the
history ends up as the signer of every cert but the original author is
still maintained.

Cheers,
Derek