# recognizing multiple authors for a patch?

1 messages from 2008-06-05 to 2008-06-05. Participants: Brian Swetland.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13808

## Brian Swetland, 2008-06-05 08:27

Subject: recognizing multiple authors for a patch?
Message-ID: <20080605082708.GA28166@bulgaria.corp.google.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080605082708.GA28166%40bulgaria.corp.google.com

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Nicolas Pitre said, in the thread on the "preserve the committer" patch:
> I think this is against the purpose of the committer field to preserve
> it from a commit that was not made by you.  What really really has to be
> preserved is the author field of course.  But attributing commit action
> to someone else than yourself when you are the one reorganizing commits
> is misrepresentation.

Which reminds me of a longstanding question I have -- how best to
represent patches which have multiple authors?

I'm submitted patches to the linux arm kernel list on behalf of a
team of kernel engineers -- drivers that are developed internally
are typically squashed down to a single patch for initial submission
and review (which seems to be the desired way to handle these things),
but in some cases they're the work of multiple people.  Is there a
better solution than to have one of the authors as the Author: and
mentioning the other contributors in the patch description?

Brian

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