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bug#8644: font-locking of multi-author changelog entries
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#8644: font-locking of multi-author changelog entries |
Date: |
Tue, 10 May 2011 19:55:59 -0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I never really understood the need for these entries. How can two or
> more people write some piece of code?
AFAIK most of Emacs's code has been written by more than 2 people.
Those entries are used for cases just like that, where the code being
checked in is the result of mixing code from two persons. Typically it
is like a separate branch developed by 2 or more people and that gets
installed as a single commit, except that usually they didn't use an
actual Bzr branch but just exchanged patches back and forth.
Stefan