From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760900AbYD3IVd (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:21:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755610AbYD3IVT (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:21:19 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:46654 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754759AbYD3IVR (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:21:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:20:32 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Avi Kivity , Linus Torvalds , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Carsten Otte Subject: Re: small author mixup (was: git pull KVM updates for 2.6.26rc) Message-ID: <20080430082032.GA23528@elte.hu> References: <1209310768-12322-1-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> <200804301012.05179.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200804301012.05179.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Christian Borntraeger 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