From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: josh@joshtriplett.org Subject: Re: co-authoring commits Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:59:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20150617205931.GB24079@cloud> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Tuncer Ayaz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 17 22:59:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5KQu-0007Gk-WE for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:59:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753175AbbFQU7g (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:59:36 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:42581 "EHLO relay4-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753017AbbFQU7f (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:59:35 -0400 Received: from cloud (joshtriplett.org [IPv6:2604:3400:dc1:41:216:3eff:fe9f:2070]) (Authenticated sender: josh@joshtriplett.org) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A3D2817207C; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:59:32 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:26:32PM +0200, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Tuncer Ayaz writes: > > > > > Is this something that breaks the design and would never be > > > implemented, > > > > Yes. > > Junio, thanks for the quick response. > > I suppose things have changed since Jonathan Nieder's response in [1] > (2010), or I've read too much into the mini-thread between Jonathan > and Josh. I was under the impression that this is generally possible > without shaking up all underpinnings. > > For what it's worth, here's why I would use the feature: > > By allowing multiple authors, you don't have to decide who's the > primary author, as in such situations usually there is no primary at > all. I sometimes deliberately override the author when committing and > add myself just as another co-author in the commit message, but as > others have noted it would be really great if we can just specify > multiple authors. Having more than one author field in a commit would likely break things, but having a coauthor field seems plausible these days. Git added support for signed commits, and the world didn't end, so it's possible to extend the commit format. - Josh Triplett