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?
Victor
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
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:23, Georg Brandl g.brandl@gmx.net wrote:
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.
You can still see who pushed it in the python-checkins emails.
Cheers,
Dirkjan
People who have not signed a contributor agreement should not be listed as code authors: this leads to non-auditable contributions and a lack of clarity as to intellectual property ownership that can have negative consequences. If you want to make someone an author, confirm they are contributors before you do so, please.
regards Steve
On Mar 6, 2011, at 4:55 AM, 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?
Victor
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Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:40 -0500, Steve Holden a écrit :
People who have not signed a contributor agreement should not be listed as code authors: this leads to non-auditable contributions and a lack of clarity as to intellectual property ownership that can have negative consequences. If you want to make someone an author, confirm they are contributors before you do so, please.
Is that some kind of joke?
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