From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 20400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:40:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-LQz+6P_qeqW3_t2tDghYMS7JAuWTsUpoKQeixYTsgiSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wfiocpciy0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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Sorry about this.
> 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.
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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 [this message]
2015-04-24 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-25 14:41 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-25 23:43 ` Paul Eggert
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