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Author is a person who usually is the creator of certain content. This tag may also refer to the mechanisms to claim the authorship of a content, like the `@author` tag in JavaDoc or C#.

Author is a user, who usually is the owner and creator of certain content. This also provides him/her with editing capabilities over the owned or created content.

In Java, this may refer to the JavaDoc @author tag.

In WordPress, authors are an important part of the blogging infrastructure. They provide the option to personalize blogs and implement post publishers within the blog. In WordPress authors can also be used for filtering posts - each author has his/her own page with own posts - this page is also referred to as Author Archive.

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How do I change the default author and committer in the Eclipse Git plugin?

I am using the Git plugin for Eclipse. I have several authors and committers which are displayed when I start typing in those fields. How can I provide changes to this list, or remove some author or committer? Also I want to set my default author…
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Javadoc @author tag good practices

I'm wondering about best practices when creating Javadocs. I have a project with many files. Code has been created by many developers. Each file has an annotation @author, so it is obvious who has created a particular class. But when some other…
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How to get (only) author name or email in git given SHA1?

I would like to check for author's e-mail and name, surname to verify who's pushing to my repo. Is there any way that I can come up with a command in git to show commiter's name/e-mail given only SHA1 of the commit? This is what I came up with but…
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How to get the author of the last commit in Git?

How to get the author of the latest commit in a Git repository? #!/bin/bash git_log=`git ls-remote git url master` git_commitId = git_log | cut -d " " -f1 echo $git_commitId cd /workspace git_log_verify = `git rev-parse HEAD` echo…
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Should I change author in package.json after forking and improving a Github repo?

I forked someone's repo and added functionality. The amount I contributed is just under half of all the functionality it now has. In the fork in package.json, his name is still in the author field. Should I change the author field to myself and add…
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git rebase --committer-date-is-author-date --root does not work

I try to set the committer date of the latest commit to its author date. Usually this works with git rebase --committer-date-is-author-date HEAD~1. Unfortunately there is only one commit which means that I have to use --root instead of HEAD~1 but…
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Check who pushed a Git commit

short: Is there any way to view who has pushed a commit to a git repository? long: git log shows me who created the commits, when and what are the commit comments. So I can know an original author of a commit. If such commit was pushed to a feature…
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Where to place the humans.txt file if I cannot put it on the site root?

Background I'm building a web application for a client. This app will be accessible to the world and will be placed in a directory (e.g., /my-app) in web-root. A subdomain isn't an option as they don't want to cough up the dough for another SSL…
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HTML: How to get credit (authorship) for developing a page/site

Despite the new features in HTML5, the use of rich snipers, microdata and what not...I still can't find a proper way to get credit for developing a page/site. Of course, you have BUT that is for the…
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How do I change the default author for accessing a local SVN repository?

I use TortoiseSVN to access file based local repo. In all my commits an author is my Windows login name. Is it possible to use different name? I know how to change author after commit but how to change before? Installing apache/svnserver is not an…
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How to set name of author in a maven project?

packaged maven project contains META-INF/manifest.mf file and in field "Built-by" is login name of current user. Where or what to set name of author, so maven will use this instead of login name?
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How can I center align only one author amongst three other authors in Latex

If I have four authors in a conference (IEEETran) paper, how can I center align only the last one of them? \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} \IEEEoverridecommandlockouts % The preceding line is only needed to identify funding in the first…
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Puppeteer PDF Title and Author (metadata)

After all my searches and code digging didn't help, I'm asking here for a hint: How, using Puppeteer PDF generation, do I set the metadata of the file (specifically title and author)? I've tried setting meta tags in my HTML, but it didn't output…
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How to get authors of changes between 2 commits?

I am trying to get authors of changes between 2 commits. What would be the best for me is something like: git diff --name-only master but instead of --name-only parameter like --authors-only But unfortunately diff does not have such one. There…
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GIT: filter log by group of authors

Our company is divided in teams and we perform code reviews before sending our code to the QA guys. Usually, any code we touch is reviewed by someone inside the same team (A), but in some cases we also need to touch code from another team (B). For…
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