From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881 Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:15:44 +0200 Message-ID: <837hrvcd67.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wrzwp5gd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87aawrnbwa.fsf@red-bean.com> <87tyuzkgq7.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262801921 32279 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 18:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 19:18:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSaSe-0001kV-SW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSaSf-0000ml-0d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:18:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSaSB-0000O4-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:17:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSaS6-0000H4-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:17:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35120 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSaS5-0000Gs-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:26087) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSaS4-0001u7-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSaS3-0000rx-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KVU0060081DLP00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:17:43 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.222.44]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KVU00IZI85H1OT1@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:17:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119533 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:12:29 +0100 > Cc: Chong Yidong , > Emacs developers > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 05:19, Karl Fogel wrote: > > > I didn't realize that you'd already established that the semantics of > > '--author' are what you want > > It's difficult to know, because the help for commit talks a bit about > author, and other than that there seems to be not much documentation > about setting the author vs. the committer (or likely, there is a lot > such documentation but I haven't found it). But the semantics would > have to be very weird to make incorrect to set the real author of the > committed code :-) Type bzr log -r "revid:eliz@gnu.org-20100102213336-hnnaav0wq0al1gni" and see there what syntax I used. It's the same syntax as in "bzr whoami", I simply submitted the string you see in the log of the above revision, enclosed in quotes.