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Support for co-authors #14
Description
To support co-authors on GitHub, the following trailer needs to be added to the commit
Co-authored-by: Firstname Lastname <some.one@example.foo>
- There must be at least one blank line between this line and the previous lines of the commit (two is recommended)
Additional features:
- It would be useful if gitcommit can cache these authors and save them in a global config since typing them out every time would become a pain.
- It would be very useful if you could type in a GitHub username e.g.
nebbles@ghand gitcommit automatically detects and attempts to resolve the public email from the GitHub profile page (and possibly full name?)
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nebbles commentedon Nov 3, 2019
https://help.github.com/en/github/committing-changes-to-your-project/creating-a-commit-with-multiple-authors
nebbles commentedon May 9, 2020
As previously mentioned, the exact specification on how to add a co-author as a 'trailer' to the commit message can be found here:
Support for coauthors was added to the GitHub desktop app. In this app, the authors are resolved through the API via a mentionable user.
The source code for getting mentionable for a particular repository:
There is also an API endpoint for getting the public email addresses of a particular GitHub user:
This PR for Atom, discusses adding mentionable users with the GitHub GraphQL API
The line of interest where the GraphQL request is made, can be found here
The documentation for the repository object on the GitHub GraphQL API can be found here
The Atom repository may be of interest as they also implemented using local git history in order to determine mentionable git users.