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On 13/10/13 22:58 +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>On 2013-10-14 09:45:38 +1100 (+1100), Angus Salkeld wrote:
>> Note the commit will "authored" by the original poster, so perhaps
>> if you modify a patch we should add a "Modified-by: " line to indicate
>> that it was dual authored.
>
>"We encourage the use of Co-Authored-By: name <name at example.com> in
>commit messages to indicate people who worked on a particular patch.
>It's a convention for recognizing multiple authors, and our projects
>would encourage the stats tools to observe it when collecting
>statistics."
>
>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Including_external_references

Well there you go, I missed that. "Always read the little writing at
the bottom" :)

-Angus

>
>That said, if the work I'm doing is trivial fixup to someone else's
>change and I'm not substantially contributing to the overall
>idea/implementation, I don't bother to add one... only if it's a
>significant departure from/improvement on the original author's
>work.

Sure.

>-- 
>Jeremy Stanley
>
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