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Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Andreas Arnez <arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:05:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
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> There's still something missing (IIUC).
> One of the problems that needs to be solved is documenting the author
> in the patch submission (the email that goes to the list). The above
> convention allows for a default where the absence of a name means
> author == committer, but we're still not specifying an absolute
> requirement that the patch author appears in the email sent to the
> list.
> Am I missing something?
I am not sure I understand what you are trying to say: You are now
establishing that there are 3 users, not 2. author, submitter, and
committer. Why do we need the submitter's name in the revision log?
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Joel