Git ChangeLog policy for GCC Testsuite inquiry

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:43:05PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> On 07/02/2020 15:32, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:56:08PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> >>Any script should, in addition to extracting the author and email also
> >>grep for "Co-authored-by:" annotations and add those as additional
> >>contributors, of course.
> >
> >Is there no existing established practice for that?  (Or is this it and
> >so infrquent that I never have seen it :-) )
> 
> It's a convention (much like signed-off-by, etc).  But it's fairly 
> widely accepted.

Apparently it is mainly a github thing.

> In the git conversion we added fields for it where we 
> detected co-authorship in the ChangeLog entries.  Git has no specific 
> field for recording additional authors,

Yup.

I think in the future we will see a lot more Suggested-by: and
Reviewed-by: and Tested-by: and the like, and less of what we now mark
as co-authoring (also because there will be more smaller commits).


Segher