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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Valerie Aurora <valerie.aurora@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: How best to handle multiple-authorship commits in GIT?
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:11:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1uqctsat.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD-XujkVK=tOtmVS90U0KAutFZ55jxsHMKuuMppXOi-H6ZY=RQ@mail.gmail.com> (Valerie Aurora's message of "Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:18:50 -0800")

Valerie Aurora <valerie.aurora@gmail.com> writes:

> And Rusty's practice as of a year or two ago is for "minor mods" to a
> patch, to leave the authorship the same, and add a Signed-off-by:
>
> Signed-off-by: Some Upstream Author
> Signed-off-by: Maintainer or Merger (rewrote error handling)
>
> And for a complete (meaningful) rewrite such as David has done, he
> changes the commit authorship and adds a Signed-off-by for the
> original author.
>
> That's existing guidelines and practice.

All sounds very sensible.  Thanks for a summary.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-02 12:25 How best to handle multiple-authorship commits in GIT? David Howells
2012-02-02 13:41 ` Frans Klaver
2012-02-02 18:00 ` Valerie Aurora
2012-02-02 19:57   ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-02 18:36 ` David Howells
2012-02-03  2:18   ` Valerie Aurora
2012-02-03  5:11     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-02-03 13:47   ` David Howells
2012-02-03 18:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-03 19:49     ` Valerie Aurora
2012-02-02 20:33 ` David Howells

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