Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:20:32 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: small author mixup (was: git pull KVM updates for 2.6.26rc) |
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* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> While it is not a typical case, is there a better way of specifying > multiple authors to avoid future confusion?
i think the established rule is that there's one Author field per commit. Multiple authors should either submit a tree with multiple commits (which shows the exact lineage of work) - or, for nontrivial joint work where the development tree would be way too messy, expose proper credits in copyrights/credit info in the source code. It's seldom that work is split exactly in half - better spell out who did what both in the source code and in the commit log - without trying to formalize the From/Author line. [which line will always be imprecise for multiple authors.]
Ingo
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