Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] xenconfig: Remove references to my name and email

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 05:55:51PM +0300, David Kiarie wrote: > > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 12:17:05 +0300, David Kiarie wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:15 PM, David Kiarie < > davidkiarie4(a)gmail.com&gt; > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Replace references to my name and email with a pseudonym > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry, I just want my real name and email off these files and I keep > > > making > > > > silly mistakes. > > > > > > How about just deleting them? We don't really support using pseudonyms. > > > > > > > Why is that ? With a person reason I don't want my name of these files. I > > wrote the files and it took me a lot of work. > > > > I can still prove I wrote this code with the above email if anyone wants > me > > to as I still work as a developer. > > FWIW, the Author lines are largely irrelevant when looking at who authored > code, they are at best incomplete, and at worst outright misleading, so we > tend to recommend people not to pay attention to them. The GIT history > contains the true accurate authorship information and your name is still > recorded there, so the fact that you did the work would not be lost even > without the Author line present. > Aiming to be an independent developer and already working on that (I am actually not formally employed at the moment), this would definitely be a huge part of my portifolio and I did actually do quite a bit of work on the code on those files.