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Re: git fast-import crashes importing commits with more than one author

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 1, 2010, 17:19 UTC
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Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com> writes:
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> On 1 May 2010 17:36, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> Giedrius Slavinskas <giedrius.slavinskas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> git fast-import does not support commits with more than one author. I
>>> try to import bzr repository and it crashes.
>>
>> You can find a patch here:
>> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~schwab-linux-m68k/bzr-fastimport/fastimport.dev/revision/262>
>>
>> Andreas.
>
> Although this is fine shouldn't we put the additional authors to the
> signed-off: lines in the git commit message?

If an author didn't sign-off in the log message, a tool shouldn't add it automatically. Doing so makes S-o-b meaningless.

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  1. Giedrius SlavinskasMay 1, 2010
  2. Andreas SchwabMay 1, 2010
  3. Dmitrijs LedkovsMay 1, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2010
  5. Dmitrijs LedkovsMay 1, 2010
  6. Andreas EricssonMay 3, 2010

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