[MERGE] Support multiple authors for a revision

[James Westby]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 19:30 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's the changes suggested by John to allow this.
> 
> >From the commit message:
> 
> > Allow specifying multiple authors for a revision.
> >   
> >   The revision property "author" is now a "\n"-separated list of authors.
> >   
> >   --author can be specified multiple times to populate that list at commit
> >   time.
> >   
> >   get_apparent_author() is deprecated in favour of get_apparent_authors(),
> >   which will return a list.
> >   
> >   Some things (e.g. annotate) still just use the first item from that list,
> >   but there is now support for other code to use all of the authors.

Oh, this is bug 185772, forgot to include that. If it's approved I would
appreciate it if the merger included the bug number in NEWS.

Thanks,

James