[MERGE] Support multiple authors for a revision (#185772)

Ian Clatworthy ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net
Fri Feb 27 01:48:49 GMT 2009


James Westby wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:04 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> The only thing I was wondering is; what happens when an older bzr tries
>> to display an 'author' property with a newline in it? 
> 
> That's a fair question, I guess anything could happen.
> 
> Newlines weren't excluded before though, so it's a theoretical
> problem already, it would be perfectly possible to cause the problems
> already. This change just makes it much more likely.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is something that we should worry about?

I expect this will break things so we ought to consider it carefully.
For example, fast-export/fast-import will need tweaks to handle
the newline (otherwise it will spit out an illegal data stream).

For the sake of backward compatibility, I'd prefer adding an
"additional_authors" property rather than changing the semantics
and parsing of the current one.

Ian C.



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