I don't think it would be difficult to falsify. How thoroughly do you go through the commits of candidates? My guess is it's only a cursory glance which would b

I don't think it would be difficult to falsify. How thoroughly do you go through the commits of candidates? My guess is it's only a cursory glance which would be pretty easy to fool. It makes me wonder though, could a pull request contain changes to previous commits to a project and thus "steal" credit from other authors?