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> Sorry, just because you found this trivially fixable array mismatch doesn't mean your buggy patch has to be accepted the way it is.

That's not really what anyone is suggesting should have happened. The maintainer should've just taken the two minutes of extra time required to checkout the OP's code, make whatever changes the maintainer wanted and commit it with co-authorship.

That clearly would've been the best course of action for the maintainer to follow (especially given that the OP expressed his desire to the recognized for his contribution) -- the best fix gets merged in and the work of others is acknowledged/respected. That said, I'm not surprised it didn't happen -- social niceties often seem to escape the maintainers of these sorts of repos...



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