From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:11:22 GMT
Subject: Re: How best to handle multiple-authorship commits in GIT?
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Valerie Aurora <valerie.aurora@gmail.com> writes:

> And Rusty's practice as of a year or two ago is for "minor mods" to a
> patch, to leave the authorship the same, and add a Signed-off-by:
>
> Signed-off-by: Some Upstream Author
> Signed-off-by: Maintainer or Merger (rewrote error handling)
>
> 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.
>
> That's existing guidelines and practice.

All sounds very sensible.  Thanks for a summary.