Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-19 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Jakub Narębski jna...@gmail.com 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

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-19 Thread Jakub Narębski
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Tuncer Ayaz tuncer.a...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Jakub Narębski jna...@gmail.com 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

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 sent

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 primary at

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 add

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:

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 override

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Tuncer Ayaz tuncer.a...@gmail.com 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

co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
Even though I don't have time to work on a feature like this, like others before me, I've been in situations where I would have liked to set more than one GIT_AUTHOR_NAME (etc.) for a single commit due to the involvement of multiple developers in authoring a change. Is this something that breaks

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 deliberately

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 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 another

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 tuncer.a...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Tuncer Ayaz tuncer.a...@gmail.com writes: Is this something that breaks the design and would never be implemented,

Re: co-authoring commits

2015-06-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Tuncer Ayaz tuncer.a...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Tuncer Ayaz tuncer.a...@gmail.com 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

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 tuncer.a...@gmail.com 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]

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 tuncer.a...@gmail.com writes: Is this something that breaks the design and would never be implemented, Yes. Junio, thanks for the quick response. I

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

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 it's

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 end,