@IceWolf @devinprater
I did some testing on my own and found that when importing a patch from email with `git am`, the author email from the original commit is the one used for the applied commit, and the committer email will be from the config of whoever ran `git am`.
So in a sense, the local commit that was sent as a patch email and the one that's applied by the maintainer are different, even though their contents are the same. But from Git's perspective, they're the same, so doing a rebase won't introduce merge conflicts. Code authorship is preserved (though the author date is changed to the date of the email message by `git send-email`).
Good references are the manpages for `git format-patch`, `git send-email`, and `git am`.