On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 06:52:24PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:26:32PM +0200, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > > > > By allowing multiple authors, you don't have to decide who's the > > primary author, as in such situations usually there is no primary at > > all. I sometimes deliberately override the author when committing and > > add myself just as another co-author in the commit message, but as > > others have noted it would be really great if we can just specify > > multiple authors. > > Just recently, there a major thread on the IETF mailing list where > IETF working group had drafts where people were listed as co-authors > without their permission, and were upset that the fact that their name > was added made it seem as if they agreed with the end product. (i.e., > that they were endorsing the I-D). So while adding formal coauthor > might solves (a few) problems, it can also introduce others. > > Ultimately there is one person who can decide which parts of the > changes to put in the commit that gets sent to the maintainer. So > there *is* someone who is the primary author; the person who takes the > final pass on the patch and then hits the send key. I've worked on many patches with another person in a shared screen session, co-authoring a series of patches and commit messages in vim, and writing an email in mutt. There were, ultimately, two people deciding what to put in a commit and send to the maintainer. This is, admittedly, unusual, but pair programming is not ridiculously uncommon. > In that case, perhaps you could set the from field to a mailing list > address. The "From" field in email headers supports a list of comma-separated addresses, just like To and Cc. Speaking from experience, this more-or-less works with all the mail software we tried it with, with the occasional program only displaying the first or last entry. - Josh Triplett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html