[Kde-scm-interest] accountability

[ComputerDruid]

> I don't have the ability to look at this now -- but my understanding was
> that when you performed a merge and the merge commit was created, the
> author of that merge commit was the person who performed the merge.
> Unless I'm wrong about that, that was my point -- the person who merged
> someone else's code is the "author" of that merge, and could be
>  accountable.
That would be true, but merge commits don't happen for fast-forward merges 
(where no real merging is involved), which can happen quite easily if cherry-
picking or rebasing is used, or if the repository isn't moving very fast. So 
that, unfortunately, can't be relied on.
-- 
-ComputerDruid
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