From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:44:03 GMT
Subject: Re: co-authoring commits
Message-ID: <xmqq381q551o.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150617222828.GB24438@cloud>

josh@joshtriplett.org writes:

> Author and committer are used by many git tools; if they weren't part of
> the object header, they'd need to be part of some pseudo-header with a
> standardized format that git can parse.

Yes, the same goes to the address on Signed-off-by: footers.  There
recently was a series to enhance the footer list handling (Christian
Cc'ed) for the generation and maintenance side, and I do think it is
reasonable to further add enhanced support for footers.

That does not argue for having a new "coauthor" as a new commit
object header at all, though.