Subject: Re: bug#14382: 24.3.50; Strange display bug

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 02:11:59 +0400

On 12.05.2013 1:44, Richard Stallman wrote:
>      What the "Author:" does is encourage people to indicate who's the real
>      author of the code.
>
> If the idea is to propose a general format convention for VC change
> log entries,

Not at all. The "Format" header value is translated into the first line 
of the commit message. The "Author" header value is translated into the 
"--author" argument passed to the VCS program.

So, having the "Author:" header present in a new log-edit-mode buffer is 
meant to encourage users to fill in its value, i.e. specify the actual 
author of the code they are checking in.