From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:49:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83zj5xy42b.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429887030 23874 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2015 14:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20400@debbugs.gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 16:50:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylevn-0007bg-Pg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:50:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylevn-0006UU-9S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylevg-0006SB-8U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylevc-0001wM-2F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylevb-0001w3-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylevb-0001CB-9Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:50:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:50:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20400 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20400-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20400.14298869834562 (code B ref 20400); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:50:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20400) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Apr 2015 14:49:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38859 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlevD-0001BO-0H for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:53495) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylev7-0001Az-2E for 20400@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NNB00600FO7CQ00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 20400@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:49:26 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NNB0066AFUEBI20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:49:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101985 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:40:45 +0100 > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: 20400@debbugs.gnu.org > > > 2) The description of Co-authored-by in CONTRIBUTE seems misleading. I > > guess it should say something along the lines of "If the commit has > > authors other than the one listed in the Author: header (ie, the one > > passed to git commit --author")..." rather than "other than yourself". > > Yes, please. That's exactly what caused my confusion. > CONTRIBUTE should tell us to use the regular git author, and then mention that > the header is available for when additional authors are needed. The way it is > written sounds like you must use the header if the author is not you. I fixed this, although with a different text than suggested above (which I find too long and confusing). Let me know if the new text needs more work.