From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:34:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: drop uses of get_cached_commit_buffer()
Message-ID: <20180221233433.GA29992@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <07690508-e6c6-5b3b-6c03-5ad83c9c3501@gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 02:19:17PM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote:

> > These behaviors are undocumented, untested, and unlikely to be
> > expected by users or other software attempting to parse this output.
> > 
> > Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
> 
> This would be a good time to allow multiple authors, or to just change the
> author, since this is exactly the diff you (Peff) provided in an earlier
> email. The commit message hopefully summarizes our discussion, but I welcome
> edits.

The point is moot if we take the revision I just sent (though in
retrospect I really ought to have put in a Reported-by: for you there).

But some communities are settling on Co-authored-by as a trailer for
this case. And GitHub has started parsing and showing that along with
author information:

  https://github.com/blog/2496-commit-together-with-co-authors

-Peff