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| author | Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> | 2022-07-22 10:18:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> | 2022-07-22 10:36:30 +0200 |
| commit | 8434396fa362c6644ff23e1f48acace7b85ffe8f (patch) | |
| tree | 133dc561bf84362aa2ea11a17e21200d106029a7 /CONTRIBUTE | |
| parent | 51209fd735a0b1da641ae535490ded0259194646 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-8434396fa362c6644ff23e1f48acace7b85ffe8f.tar.gz | |
Explain how to override Author with VC
* CONTRIBUTE: Describe how to use Author header line and
'log-edit-setup-add-author'.
Diffstat (limited to 'CONTRIBUTE')
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTE | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index d624fe85245..94d757daafe 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -347,7 +347,10 @@ tests: If committing changes written by someone else, commit in their name, not yours. You can use 'git commit --author="AUTHOR"' to specify a -change's author. Note that the validity checks described in the +change's author. When using Emacs VC to commit, the author can be +specified in the log-edit buffer by adding an "Author: AUTHOR" header +line (set 'log-edit-setup-add-author' non-nil to have this header line +added automatically). Note that the validity checks described in the previous section are still applied, so you will have to correct any problems they uncover in the changes submitted by others. |