And my point was that from "a utilitarian perspective" there's a middle ground between "coach the original author to produce a better patch" and "commit your ow

And my point was that from "a utilitarian perspective" there's a middle ground between "coach the original author to produce a better patch" and "commit your own patch without crediting the original author"; it's "commit your own patch while crediting the original author". There's no "out of context" quoting in my comment.