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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
Cc: 20400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:49:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zj5xy42b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-LQz+6P_qeqW3_t2tDghYMS7JAuWTsUpoKQeixYTsgiSA@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:40:45 +0100
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> 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.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-24 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-21 20:41 bug#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog Glenn Morris
2015-04-24 14:40 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-24 14:49   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-04-25 14:41     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-25 23:43 ` Paul Eggert

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