Backported commits hide attribution
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Description
When mergify creates a backport PR (for example) where the original commits have "Co-Authors", the co-author information is lost.
See this PR where there are 4 commits backported from this other PR. Note how the first two commits are the result of several people but that information seems to be lost on the cherrypicked commit.
I suspect the problem is the original commit message is modified to append (cherry picked from commit 5855906). GitHub expects the Co-Authored-By lines at the end of the commit message, so the modified commit message shadows that info.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the issue using the linked pull requests and compare the original and cherry-picked commit messages, focusing on how Mergify appends the cherry-pick reference. Done means Co-Authored-By lines remain at the end of the backported commit message and GitHub displays the original co-authors.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, github, python
- Domain
- developer-experience, devops
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100