[LLVMdev] How to contact LLVM admins?

[Chandler Carruth]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com> wrote:

> > We have had no trouble using "Patch by <name>" as the form of
> attribution for a
> > lot of years with contributions from a wide range of companies. So I'm
> not really
> > inclined to change a process which leaves the system of record *exactly*
> the
> >  same (a textual acknowledgement of attribution) and only makes one
> mirror of
> > it superficially better.
>
> Adding --use-log-author to "git svn fetch" will have no effect unless
> the committer either adds --add-author-from to "git svn dcommit" or
> does a one-time setup:
>
>     $ git config --global config svn.addAuthorFrom true
>
> You can continue to use "Patch by <name>" if neither you nor the
> author care.  If correct attribution on the git mirror is important to
> *either* party, then the git mirror must be configured with
> --use-log-author.  As a committer, correct attribution on the git
> mirror is important to me for ethical and practical reasons.  It
> should probably be important to me for legal reasons too.  :)


Not having different attribution mechanisms or creating any appearance that
one might be more or less important than another is important to me.
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