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SubjectRe: small author mixup (was: git pull KVM updates for 2.6.26rc)

* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> While it is not a typical case, is there a better way of specifying
> multiple authors to avoid future confusion?

i think the established rule is that there's one Author field per
commit. Multiple authors should either submit a tree with multiple
commits (which shows the exact lineage of work) - or, for nontrivial
joint work where the development tree would be way too messy, expose
proper credits in copyrights/credit info in the source code. It's seldom
that work is split exactly in half - better spell out who did what both
in the source code and in the commit log - without trying to formalize
the From/Author line. [which line will always be imprecise for multiple
authors.]

Ingo


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