Thank you for your input. I understand the limited concerns, but while I have so far been happy to accept my opinion being overruled, this is one of the few things that I will not compromise on.
I further think "dont tell me meta data is more important than data" sums up my technical argument quite neatly. Just make your commit log printer ignore any commits from my username for a set time period and the problem is solved ;-)
And: If you check on the other PRs, you will find them containing far less commits with more changes compounded into one commit. I'd be happy to further drive that number down in the future - the only reason why I kept it like this for this one PR was so that it could be followed and we could discuss it in detail. But that is unrelated to my requirement of getting proper credit ;-)