Backwards compatibility of the 'authors' revision property?

[Ben Finney]

Matt Nordhoff <mnordhoff at mattnordhoff.com> writes:

> (Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this. I just glanced at the code.)
> 
> When the 'authors' revision property was added, ISTM it was changed so
> that new revisions will only ever have the 'authors' revprop, and no
> 'author' revprop. This is bad for interacting with older clients, isn't
> it? They'll only miss a bit of information in "bzr log", but still.

Yes, that would be bad. My understanding was that there will still be
a single-person ‘author’ property set on every revision, so that tools
requiring the concept of “single person who owns this revision”
still have it. Is that not the case?

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Ben Finney