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Hi Ohloh team,

it would be nice if one could claim the ownership of some commits (on a per commit basis).

Use case: contributing patches from time to time to a project, without having write access to the repository. Some VCS (darcs, git) will keep the author's name, if the patch is applied as-is by upstream, but others will not.

I guess this is low priority, and not easy to integrate, but still I hope you will consider the idea eventually.

Kind regards.

Gabriel Kerneis

about 3 years ago

Hi Gabriel,

I agree: this is a good feature idea. It's one we've been hoping to implement for quite a while. Many projects restrict committer access, so all of the work ends up looking like it was done by one or two maintainers.

Sadly, it will probably be a long time before we can find the resources to make this happen, but it is something we're thinking about.

Thanks, Robin

Robin Luckey

about 3 years ago

Hi, I just wanted to throw in some support for this issue. This is a frustrating aspect when providing patches to projects using SVN and CVS.

Thanks, Adam

Adam Franco

over 2 years ago

Just a "me too".

hyc

over 2 years ago

+1

Chris Conroy

over 2 years ago

definitely interested in this, even though it's understandably not high priority. any updates on finding resources for it?

Ryan Barrett

about 1 year ago

I would like this too, I periodically contribute individual large commits to a project where credit goes to me in the commit details but the actual commit is done by someone else. It would be really nice to have these attributed properly.

Erich Hoover

about 1 year ago

+1

JerryShea

about 1 year ago

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