git: 5b7c17856512 - main - git hooks: Rework authorship instructions.

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 22 10:46:54 UTC 2021


On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:43:46AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:16:16PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:10:26PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > > ...
> > > I agree that author should only be used if a submission is applied
> > > unaltered (pull request/git patch).
> > 
> > Submitted by has always been for submission that was unaltered (or only
> > slightly altered) if it was only the basis of the work, then "submitted
> > by" is not to be used, in those cases, reported by is the correct
> > choice.
> 
> Not really, no.  "PR:/Submitted by:" is canonical combination, yet most
> of us modify submitted patches because they almost always need more work.

Sorry, hit send button too soon.

... while "Reported by:" are more suitable for actual reports "hey, there
is a bug/new version/etc.", that is, all sorts of patchless submissions.

./danfe


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