How to attribute a single commit to multiple developers?

Question

The way all version control systems I\'m familiar with work is that each commit is attributed to a single developer. The rise of Agile Engineering, and specifically pair pro

Answer 1

A git convention is to use Co-Authored-By at the end of the commit message (git kernel: Commit Message Conventions, referring to Openstack Commit Messages). This is also one of the solutions on the git-core bug linked in Gerry's answer

Co-authored-by: Some One <some.one@example.foo>

In that comment on May 5, 2010, Josh Triplett also suggests implementing corresponding support in git.

As Llopis pointed out in a comment, GitHub announced support for this on their blog on Jan 29, 2018: Commit together with co-authors (details).

Answer 2

Most of the co-author tools do not support autocompletion. You can try git-coco, its written in python3 (I'm the developer). git-coco supports autocomplete and auto-suggest. Here is a snapshot autocomplete on sample authors

Answer 3

git-pair

https://github.com/pivotal/git_scripts#git-pair

This simple script from Pivotal to automate Git pair programming attribution.

You create a .pairs file like:

# .pairs - configuration for 'git pair'
pairs:
  # <initials>: <Firstname> <Lastname>[; <email-id>]
  eh: Edward Hieatt
  js: Josh Susser; jsusser
  sf: Serguei Filimonov; serguei
email:
  prefix: pair
  domain: pivotallabs.com
  # no_solo_prefix: true
#global: true

and then:

git pair sp js

sets:

user.name=Josh Susser & Sam Pierson
user.email=pair+jsusser+sam@pivotallabs.com

for you.