Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-19 Thread Jakub Narębski
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Jakub Narębski wrote: >> [This is sent from Thunderbird news, so it should be all right] > > This is fine, the other one was broken. Out of curiosity what's the > difference between Thunderbird email and news

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-19 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Jakub Narębski wrote: > On 2015-06-18 at 23:25, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:26:32PM +0200, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > [...] > > > One could imagine some frankly, quite rare example where t

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-19 Thread Jakub Narębski
On 2015-06-18 at 23:25, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:26:32PM +0200, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: [...] >> One could imagine some frankly, quite rare example where there is a >> team of people who votes on each commit before it gets

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-19 Thread Jakub Narębski
On 2015-06-19 at 06:25, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:25:44PM +0200, Jakub Narębski wrote: >> Author and committer include datetime in the contents of the >> field, which is used by Git for heuristics limiting walk. Coauthor >> would have the same date as author, isn't it? If, after

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-18 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:25:44PM +0200, Jakub Narębski wrote: > Author and committer include datetime in the contents of the > field, which is used by Git for heuristics limiting walk. Coauthor > would have the same date as author, isn't it? If, after long > and involved discussion, we didn't ad

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-18 Thread Jakub Narębski
Junio C Hamano wrote: j...@joshtriplett.org writes: Author and committer are used by many git tools; if they weren't part of the object header, they'd need to be part of some pseudo-header with a standardized format that git can parse. Yes, the same goes to the address on Signed-off-by: foote

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-18 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:52 AM, 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 o

RE: co-authoring commits

2015-06-18 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Theodore Ts'o > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 6:52 PM > > 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 > p

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread josh
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 delib

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
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 anot

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
j...@joshtriplett.org writes: > Author and committer are used by many git tools; if they weren't part of > the object header, they'd need to be part of some pseudo-header with a > standardized format that git can parse. Yes, the same goes to the address on Signed-off-by: footers. There recently

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread josh
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:51:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > j...@joshtriplett.org writes: > > > Having more than one author field in a commit would likely break things, > > but having a coauthor field seems plausible these days. Git added > > support for signed commits, and the world didn't

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > j...@joshtriplett.org writes: > > > Having more than one author field in a commit would likely break > > things, but having a coauthor field seems plausible these days. > > Git added support for signed commits, and the world didn't end, so >

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
j...@joshtriplett.org writes: > Having more than one author field in a commit would likely break things, > but having a coauthor field seems plausible these days. Git added > support for signed commits, and the world didn't end, so it's possible > to extend the commit format. Something being pos

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread josh
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 01:57:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Tuncer Ayaz writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Tuncer Ayaz writes: > >> > >> > Is this something that breaks the design and would never be > >> > implemented, > >> > >> Yes. > > > > Junio, th

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread josh
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:26:32PM +0200, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Tuncer Ayaz writes: > > > > > Is this something that breaks the design and would never be > > > implemented, > > > > Yes. > > Junio, thanks for the quick response. > > I supp

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Tuncer Ayaz writes: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Tuncer Ayaz writes: >> >> > Is this something that breaks the design and would never be >> > implemented, >> >> Yes. > > Junio, thanks for the quick response. > > I suppose things have changed since Jonathan Nieder's

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Tuncer Ayaz writes: > > > Is this something that breaks the design and would never be > > implemented, > > Yes. Junio, thanks for the quick response. I suppose things have changed since Jonathan Nieder's response in [1] (2010), or I've rea

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Tuncer Ayaz writes: > Is this something that breaks the design and would never be implemented, Yes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html