Re: [PATCH] Implement git-quiltimport

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 17, 2006, 05:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wut2p5z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <m13bf95ixo.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

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> A infrastructure question came to me when looking at this:
> several of the patches are from a branch with several authors.
> How do we specify a commit in git with several authors?
>
> There are cases when you have enough collaboration that even
> a single patch could have multiple authors, contributing equally.

The object format allows one author and one committer, but they are only used for human consumption and log summarizing purposes by the core. We could extend it to support more than one but I doubt it is worth it.

I would say it would be best to place the primary contact person, incase somebody has a problem with that particular patch done by such a group, on the author line. Listing everybody involved to give credits to them at the end of the log message would also be a good idea, and that's where we usually record attribution, sign-offs and acked-bys.