2018-03-18 19:50 GMT+01:00, Mark Thompson <s...@jkqxz.net>: > On 18/03/18 18:36, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> 2018-03-18 19:12 GMT+01:00, Mark Thompson <s...@jkqxz.net>:
[...] > I was just wondering if there was any specific reason > why you were encouraging it in this case Because it is good practice. > (I don't think I've seen you ask for it before, > though I admit I wouldn't necessarily notice). > >>> The only source for anyone actually needing authorship >>> information should be the commit history. >> >> FFmpeg is a superb example for a project where looking >> at the commit history is not sufficient to find out about >> authorship (this is just to explain that there are different, >> not necessarily closely related issues at hand). > > I agree that this is true for older code in the repository > (pre-git in particular). No. Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel