* recognizing multiple authors for a patch?
@ 2008-06-05 8:27 99% Brian Swetland
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From: Brian Swetland @ 2008-06-05 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
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