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Subject: Re: [RFC] Proof of concept: Support multiple authors
From: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date: 2017-01-31 0:54:53
Message-ID: 3204990.cGxpkETTLk () linux-7ekr
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On Monday 30 January 2017 12:48:52 Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:83880
> https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:146223
> https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:146886
Thanks for putting the links together. That's very useful as a reference.
> The older discussions already cited the cost to update both in-tree
> and out-of-tree tools not to barf when they see such a commit object
> and one of the reason why we would not want to do this, and Ted Ts'o
> gave us another excellent reason why not to do multiple author
> header lines in a commit object header, i.e. "How often is that all
> of the authors are completely equal?"
Just to give a bit of context: In the pair programming environment where I
work we usually use non-personalized workstations and switch the keyboard
between the two people working together quite frequently, sometimes every few
minutes, or even within writing a commit message. There the person pressing
the return button on the commit really does not have a special role. In this
style of working I think it feels like the fairest and most practical
assumption to treat all authors as equal.
> My advice to those who want to record credit to multiple authors is
> to treat the commit author line as recording the primary contact
> when there is a question on the commit and nothing else. Anything
> with richer semantics is better done in the trailer by enriching the
> support of trailer lines with interpret-trailers framework.
Thanks for the advice. I think I will explore this direction a little bit
further and see how handling a situation of multiple authors could be better
done in this framework.
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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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