Re: author names in .c files

[Matt Rice]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ralf just pointed this out to me:
> http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#territoriality
>
> For an example of something that looks like territoriality, notice how many
> tests/test-*.c files are attached to my name:
>
> $ git grep 'Eric Blake' tests |wc
>     95     762    6817
>
> Would anyone object if I removed most (if not all) 95 instances of my name
> from those files, given the argument that 'git shortlog file' will still
> give a pretty good indication of who the original author was?

I would recommend not just removing it, but maybe replacing it with
/* Written by Gnulib Developers <address@hidden>, 2009.  */

or something of the sort.