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Re: The "I" of the manual is currently anonymous


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: The "I" of the manual is currently anonymous
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:08:57 -0700
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On 11/10/2010 03:02 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Attached, against current git.

Thanks.  Can you convince your mailer to send patches as mime type
text/plain, so that they're easier to review inline?

> The log of the history is superficially complex, but as far as I can
> see, that's only because of a number of systematic corrections of
> various macro usages &c. over the years. As far as I can tell, it
> mostly comes from:
> 
> commit d5c63cb83ebec680a74fdae5f752a2a0ad729bb7
> Author: David MacKenzie <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Aug 23 20:24:36 1994 +0000
> 
>     fix x, add history
> 
> I can only find one other authorial first person; the others I had
> thought I found were in an attributed quotation.

I tweaked the ChangeLog to add (tiny change) after your name, to reflect
that this change does not warrant copyright papers (and in no way
demeaning your contribution!), then copied the changelog entry to the
commit message and pushed.

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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