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Subject[RFC] Add a "Co-authored-by" commit tag
Hi all

In most cases we work on our patches from the beginning to the end, but
from time to time it happens, that someone originates a patch but then
becomes (temporarily) unable to continue with new reviews, so, someone
picks it up from there and brings to a final form. Or simply even several
persons work closely on one patch. A yet another case is, when someone
posts a rough first version of a patch, but then someone else heavily
reworks it and becomes the actual submitting author of the patch, still,
the original author should be mentioned somehow too.

Currently we can do something like

From: Original Author <...>

Signed-off-by: Original Author <...>
[contributor-2@...: continued patch development since v2]
Signed-off-by: New Contributor <contributor-2@...>

But is this sufficient, wouldn't a "Co-authored-by" tag be a better match
for similar situations?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/


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