From: David Howells Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:47:00 GMT Subject: Re: How best to handle multiple-authorship commits in GIT? Message-ID: <4681.1328276820@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Valerie Aurora wrote: > 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. Val[*] hasn't signed off all her patches, and indeed I've merged together some patches that she has signed off and some she hasn't. I can't simply add Signed-off-by her without her permission. However, if she's willing for me to add such lines, then I can do so. > Signed-off-by: Some Upstream Author > Signed-off-by: Maintainer or Merger (rewrote error handling) And if the changes are more than can be put in what's left of the line? I would've thought it would make more sense to do something like: Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora (Original author) Signed-off-by: David Howells (Further development) David [*] Apologies for talking about/to you in the third person, Val.