[FFmpeg-devel] rebasing security

Marton Balint cus at passwd.hu
Tue Aug 12 20:04:34 EEST 2025



On Tue, 5 Aug 2025, Kacper Michajlow wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 at 23:38, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
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>> - Previously it was pretty clear from git history who actually committed
>>    a change from the comitter field. With using forgejo the comitter
>>    field no longer shows the person who actually *committed* the change to
>>    the main repo, but it is inherited from the original pull request commit
>>    instead, so it simply shows the original author of the patch.
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> I don't think this is accurate. Committer field is set to the person
> who clicks the "merge" button. Same as they would manually git push
> the patches.

Even if the merge is fast forward? Because there is a pull request I 
merged via forgejo, and committer was not updated:
09828e7fe214a28cacfb805605bd5b19041d1f68

Regards,
Marton


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