Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support multi-author commits.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

I omitted the ChangeLog and git log entry for the commit-msg script,
now fixed in my private branch as follows:

On 15 Nov 2011, at 12:04, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> The FSF cares about keeping track of all authors of patches to its
> projects, but Git doesn't provide obvious support for multi-author
> changesets. Consensus seems to be forming around the use of extra
> Signed-off-by inspired lines in the log message formatted as
> `Co-authored-by: A U Thor <address@hidden>' for round-tripping
> multi-author commits between version control systems.
> * gitlog-to-changelog: Extract `Co-authored-by:' lines from the git
> log message and output in standard ChangeLog multi-author format.

* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: New script. Put this in .git/hooks
to diagnose missing or malformed Co-authored-by lines at commit time.

> Reported by Peter Rosin <address@hidden>

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)