From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:41:59 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429649003 19419 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2015 20:43:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:43:23 +0000 (UTC) To: 20400@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 21 22:43:11 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 1Ykf0f-0004QB-89 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:43:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykf0e-0000wx-LU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykf0a-0000tw-49 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykf0Y-00073R-KR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykf0Y-00073K-II for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykf0Y-0006T2-Ba for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:43:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 20400 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: submit@debbugs.gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.142964892324733 (code B ref -1); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Apr 2015 20:42:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35558 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykeza-0006Qg-Hu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50587 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkezX-0006QO-Qb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkezX-0007f7-3y; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:41:59 -0400 X-Spook: terrorist North Korea Jiang Zemin LABLINK Downing Street X-Ran: *Lw\FJ;'s@p@28"U!R 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:101848 Archived-At: Package: emacs Version: 25.0.50 `make ChangeLog' gives me a file containing this: 2015-04-19 Steve Purcell Steve Purcell Presumably this is due to a mistake in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2015-04/msg00308.html Three things to fix IMO: 1) That specific ChangeLog entry 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". 3) The ChangeLog generation script should avoid listing literally identical authors twice.