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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#14382: 24.3.50; Strange display bug |
Date: | Sun, 12 May 2013 02:11:59 +0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
On 12.05.2013 1:44, Richard Stallman wrote:
What the "Author:" does is encourage people to indicate who's the real author of the code. If the idea is to propose a general format convention for VC change log entries,
Not at all. The "Format" header value is translated into the first line of the commit message. The "Author" header value is translated into the "--author" argument passed to the VCS program.
So, having the "Author:" header present in a new log-edit-mode buffer is meant to encourage users to fill in its value, i.e. specify the actual author of the code they are checking in.
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