Ignoring the problem with lacking DCO (potential problem) the Linux project seems very flexible with fixing up commits (I mean patches). I mean some practices a

Ignoring the problem with lacking DCO (potential problem) the Linux project seems very flexible with fixing up commits (I mean patches). I mean some practices are pretty jank: <message> Reported-by: ... Signed-off-by: ... [<initials>: fixed a typo in the commit message] Signed-off-by: <initials> [<initials2>: fixed a leak, oh my!] Signed-off-by: <initials2> (Changelog in the changelog) Assuming proper signoff attribution (DCO), it's absolutely possible to clean up a patch, note that in the commit message, and then either give the original author full authorship or give one of you a co-author status. That seems like a more reasonable way to go if you don't have time to go multiple review rounds, trying to poke them towards the preferred solution.