[FFmpeg-devel] [GIT] ready by the weekend

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:17:36AM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Reimar D?ffinger
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> >> > and we have not documented (have we even decided?)
> >> >> > how to handle bad commit messages (and different levels of
> >> >> > bad, ranging from spelling mistakes over non-understandable
> >> >> > to wrong patch-by attribution).
> >> >>
> >> >> there isn't patch-by in git... You send your patch and it gets signed
> >> >> off by whoever push it to the main tree....
> >> >
> >> > What? Are you suggesting we no longer document who wrote a patch?
> >> > I really have not the slightest clue what you mean by this.
> >>
> >> git distinguishes "author" from committer, svn does not. ?Thus one no
> >> longer has to manually track authorship as in svn.
> >
> > So? Git still certainly doesn't contain magic smoke that makes it impossible
> > to have the wrong thing as "author", so I fail to see how that is relevant
> > (except for the point that I used the wrong term).
> 
> The only reason anyone ever gets author wrong is because it's not part
> of the patch.

Or because they're not used to the work-flow.
Or because they made significant changes to the original patch and what
they apply has more than one author.
Or it's part of the patch but it was just plain wrong from the very start.
Or they had a local git installation that is set-up incorrectly and they
notice only afterwards.
Either way I don't see how it's relevant why it might be wrong.