Convention for multiple users as authors of a changeset?

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Tue Jun 3 11:19:30 CDT 2008


L. David Baron <dbaron <at> dbaron.org> writes:
> 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.

I haven't seen any conventions for this (and I think I already told you so). If
we want to have one, I think it would make the most sense to make it what we had
before, separated by commas (probably with a space after that). Like this:

Daniel Glazman <glazou at mozilla.org>, David Baron <dbaron at mozilla.org>

That would at least be easy to parse in the different places where we need it
and has little overhead.

Cheers,

Dirkjan



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