implementing real support for multiple authors of the commit (ex. pair programming)

Hello,

I've found some workarounds for adding multiple people as an author of the commit. All of them doesn't seem really clear for me. I would like to ask if someone can elaborate on complexity of adding a genuine support for multiple authors of the commit?

At this moment it looks like people can specify multiple names for author field but still only one email, but most applications working with git repositories (ex. gitorious) use email field to identify a person. I think at this moment adding possibility of adding more than one email in author field could help.

I've tried with using something like --author 'Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck <mickey@mice.net, donald@ducks.net>' and it worked but still I would prefer using something like: --authors 'Mickey Mouse <mickey@mice.net>, Donald Duck <donald@ducks.net>'

Adding such support sooner then later could prevent propagation of various workarounds and enrich git with very significant functionality which becomes fundamental in development nowadays.

With the committer I think it make sense to have a reference just to one person who actually commits the code.

With wishes of fun with social codding, elf Pavlik http://wwelves.org/perpetual-tripper