Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mié sep 12 11:21:36 -0300 2012:
> A while ago I wanted to cherry-pick a patch from master to a back-branch
> that was initially committed by someone else. That was rejected because
> our git server requires author==committer. I don't think that
> restriction is particularly useful and should be lifted. I'm not saying
> we should let anyone be an author, but within the pool of committers, I
> think we should let the mechanics of the git tools determine these
> fields.
+1. I had the same problem.
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