From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:12:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87wrzwp5gd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87aawrnbwa.fsf@red-bean.com> <87tyuzkgq7.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262772854 30459 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 10:14:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Emacs developers To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 11:14:07 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 1NSSty-0004qC-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:14:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSStu-0000hn-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:14:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSSsp-0000Cb-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSSsl-0000Ah-1B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:12:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40707 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSSsk-0000AZ-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:12:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com ([209.85.218.215]:59335) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSSsk-0005k7-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:12:50 -0500 Original-Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so11717525bwz.26 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:12:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=6emGv5gh78LjGyIx1R8aNlhok0iJA7Da0TRgwmxUuAM=; b=lbbJcPpgPVk81hcEIZMo2qENKGH/7GJ7udgrpGBfrR7VC3Tw6znPS55YkFOaXxeYNG xsnW3vF1B8ALX5u3IYYJdmClzWAuzvKaAo9L8Gi5dbGoaACHl1p8GGVhKzWzdhWBGGNB KZQxWCYo08w3VJtAnH2QL7Ob1ZnkltwoFwJ/0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=VgBsf3CintW/dF0X2fL+ChJWctIo9UCRqXqmi3rCj5W/dIQiohbkCS03q/qGkav6DX KQf5aY3SNgdLJ1VZApEoyiVYZUQ3Kdb3JiDI1jsSHNtNfhqf++ajCuIZaQkkY6a+SH7p 6ct09G00ylz24cZK7r3FjKFSqcQyNYRbBh9Bw= Original-Received: by 10.204.148.82 with SMTP id o18mr5653690bkv.188.1262772769124; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:12:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87tyuzkgq7.fsf@red-bean.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:119513 Archived-At: 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 :-) Juanma