On 06.03.2011 10:55, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I do sometimes commit patches written by someone else. I tried to always > add him/her to Misc/ACKS and in the changelog entry (Misc/NEWS). With > git, it's possible to record an author different than the commiter. In > Mercurial, I see a --user option. > > Can I use this option to commit a patch written by someone else? Or is > there another option for that? > > If I use hg commit --user, is it possible to see somewhere that the > commiter was me?
Basically, no. If you want to honor contributors, put their name into the commit message. Georg _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
