I learned today that GitHub now supports multiple author info in a commit.
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-commit-with-multiple-authors/
and
https://github.com/blog/2496-commit-together-with-co-authors
It can be done by adding:
Co-authored-by: name <email address>
as the footer of the commit message.
I tested this in CPython:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6ea75b174da0cf824e2acc5db6b53798f5…
I suggest we start adding this where it makes sense, to give proper credit
to PR authors. What I've seen is that we've only been writing "Original
Patch by <someone else>".
One scenario is when we convert someone else's mercurial patch to GitHub
pull request. Or when someone started a patch, and another person finished
it.
The other scenario is with miss-islington's backport PRs. I will try to
find time this week so that miss-islington or cherry_picker will add the
"Co-authored-by:" automatically.
Mariatta Wijaya
I plan to come back to python development (about time!) but I truly
hates git. I am experimenting with mercurial + hg-git extension and it
is quite usable (after the initial painfully slow clone time), but I am
having small quirks that I would like to iron out with a fellow more
experienced or also interested in this approach.
Anybody out there?.
If this is considered off-topic, please let me know.
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