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Re: [PATCH] cvsserver: add option to configure commit message

From
Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>
Date
Jan 4, 2009, 11:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20090104112318.GB7732@lars.home.noschinski.de>
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* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [09-01-04 12:13]:
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>Fabian Emmes <fabian.emmes@rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> cvsserver annotates each commit message by "via git-CVS emulator". This is
>> made configurable via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabian Emmes <fabian.emmes@rwth-aachen.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>
>
>I do not see the development history behind this and am somewhat puzzled
>by these two S-o-b lines.  Is it "Fabian developed it, showed it to Lars
>who cleaned it up and/or enhanced it and here is the result"?  Or is it
>"Lars developed it, circulated it in his closer circle, Fabian found it
>useful and worthy for inclusion and sending it to the mailing list"?

It is "Fabian and Lars developed it and Fabian is the one who mailed it for inclusion". We could just leave off the second S-o-b line, if this is less irritating?

>Whichever it is, I just will take it as "This is co-developed and between
>the authors Fabian is the primary author" and apply.
Fine with me.
  - Lars.
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Message 7 of 8 in “cvsserver: add option to configure commit message”
  1. cvsserver: add option to configure commit messageFabian Emmes, Jan 2, 2009
  2. cvsserver: change generation of CVS author namesFabian Emmes, Jan 2, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 3, 2009
  4. Lars NoschinskiJan 4, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 4, 2009
  7. Lars NoschinskiJan 4, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 4, 2009

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