Convention for multiple users as authors of a changeset?

L. David Baron dbaron at dbaron.org
Tue Jun 3 11:13:54 CDT 2008


Mercurial allows me to specify any string as the user who is the
author of a changeset, though there seems to be a clear convention
of using a string of the form "Full Name <email at address>", and
various tools (hgweb, various logging tools) parse the string for
the full name and email address parts.

Are there any conventions for placing the names of more than one
person in the user/author metadata of a changeset?  An example of
where I wanted this is
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/index.cgi/rev/dc3c9abdd272 ,
where I took a partial patch that was a number of years old, updated
it (with a bunch of modifications), and finished it, yet wanted to
credit the original author.  This changeset (whose author field is
"Daniel Glazman <daniel at glazman.org> and L. David Baron
<dbaron at dbaron.org>") shows up in a number of places in hgweb as
"Daniel Glazman" or in "hg log --style=compact" output as "daniel",
which isn't really what I want here.

-David

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