From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Swetland Subject: recognizing multiple authors for a patch? Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:27:08 -0700 Organization: Google, Inc. Message-ID: <20080605082708.GA28166@bulgaria.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 05 10:30:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K4ArL-00054U-6D for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:30:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754043AbYFEI3D (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:29:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752713AbYFEI2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:28:55 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:16058 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751721AbYFEI2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:28:53 -0400 Received: from spaceape24.eur.corp.google.com (spaceape24.eur.corp.google.com [172.28.16.76]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id m558SlQu005796 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:28:47 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=beta; t=1212654527; bh=sgf+OYnhhlikz9oNq2ZCEqL+LBw=; h=DomainKey-Signature:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:Organization:User-Agent; b=MJGeWp EANuDQy8tEGUDOwkePXfOhbOs0CN4+gZXVZ/H1OfOdGtscfSDCIzYbYZGBu95/KWTYK bv3hObIyr/o/w== DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version: content-type:content-disposition:organization:user-agent; b=M+DRBWRgSb+6li/koUYSXRp9swVvZxhAhoiIq5BqXIsA3TzrQebw5TmJMBVlBKgla WN1/kIesireOAckoZX9+A== Received: from bulgaria (bulgaria.corp.google.com [172.18.102.38]) by spaceape24.eur.corp.google.com with ESMTP id m558Skht030215 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:28:46 +0100 Received: by bulgaria (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 242791224FF; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre said, in the thread on the "preserve the committer" patch: > I think this is against the purpose of the committer field to preserve > it from a commit that was not made by you. What really really has to be > preserved is the author field of course. But attributing commit action > to someone else than yourself when you are the one reorganizing commits > is misrepresentation. Which reminds me of a longstanding question I have -- how best to represent patches which have multiple authors? I'm submitted patches to the linux arm kernel list on behalf of a team of kernel engineers -- drivers that are developed internally are typically squashed down to a single patch for initial submission and review (which seems to be the desired way to handle these things), but in some cases they're the work of multiple people. Is there a better solution than to have one of the authors as the Author: and mentioning the other contributors in the patch description? Brian