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bug#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog
From: |
Artur Malabarba |
Subject: |
bug#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Apr 2015 15:41:05 +0100 |
Looks fine to me. Thanks Eli.
2015-04-24 15:49 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:40:45 +0100
>> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 20400@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > 2) The description of Co-authored-by in CONTRIBUTE seems misleading. I
>> > guess it should say something along the lines of "If the commit has
>> > authors other than the one listed in the Author: header (ie, the one
>> > passed to git commit --author")..." rather than "other than yourself".
>>
>> Yes, please. That's exactly what caused my confusion.
>> CONTRIBUTE should tell us to use the regular git author, and then mention
>> that
>> the header is available for when additional authors are needed. The way it is
>> written sounds like you must use the header if the author is not you.
>
> I fixed this, although with a different text than suggested above
> (which I find too long and confusing). Let me know if the new text
> needs more work.