reassign 451880 git git-core/1:1.5.3.5-1
found 451880 git/1:1.7.1-1
tags 451880 + upstream
quit
Hi Josh,
Josh Triplett wrote[1]:
> I fairly often work on a commit with other people, and I want the
> commit metadata to reflect that by showing multiple authors for one
> commit.
This has come up a few times recently[2][3][4], with the best workaround
suggested being Andreas’s
Co-authored-by: Some One <some....@example.foo>
As you mentioned, emails are allowed to have multiple authors, and
there is no reason in principle some faraway future git version could
not similarly handle them:
1. Teach _everyone_ who parses git objects (in git.git and elsewhere)
to process ‘coauthor’ lines after the committer line. Unlike
the ‘author’ line, these would not have a date attached.
2. Teach ‘git fsck’ (and hence index-pack, etc) to warn about them but
not error out.
3. Add a configuration variable to allow git to produce
multiple-author commits. Such commits would make the repository
unusable by versions of git without (1) and (2), so probably nobody
would want to enable this for a while.
Sounds doable but a lot of trouble. Maybe Nicolas Pitre or Shawn Pearce
could say more if you want to pursue this.
Alternatively, maybe format-patch, fast-import/fast-export, and am
should cheat by processing Co-authored-by lines at the top of the final
paragraph of the commit message themselves.
BTW, thanks for all your work on git. Your bug reports are a lot of
fun to read.
What do you think?
Jonathan
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/451880
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/83880
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/146086/focus=146223
[4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/146886
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