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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT editinfo 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 95 07:28:12 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 07:50:37 -0700
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>>    Accepted policy? Who accepted it?? The first I heard about it is with your
>> "reminder".
>
>In all fairness to Rod, I remember this as our policy as well and I do
>recall it being discussed when we first added the `Submitted By' and
>`Obtained From' fields.  We decided, according to my recollection, to
>use the following methodology:

   Well, you know the first thing they say goes is your memory...but...

>If you check the commit logs, I do believe that you'll find them to be
>pretty consistent with this convention.

   Actually, it's quite a mixed bag...I've used the person's name since the
beginning and I do a fair number of commits; other people used either the login
or name+login.
   Honestly, I think it makes very little difference and I'm surprised that
we're making an issue out of something so trivial.

-DG