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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: perex@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ALSA official git repository
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:51:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050527135124.0d98c33e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271113410.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, sorry for this small bug. I'll recreate the ALSA git tree with
> > proper comments again. Also, the author is not correct (should be taken
> > from the first Signed-off-by:).
> 
> Hmm.. That's not always true in general, since Sign-off does allow to sign
> off on other peoples patches (see the "(b)" clause in DCO), but maybe in
> the ALSA tree it is.

Yes, I'll occasionally do patches which were written by "A" as:

From: A
...
Signed-off-by: B

And that comes through email as:


...
From: <akpm@osdl.org>
...
From: A
...
Signed-off-by: B


which means that the algorithm for identifying the author is "the final
From:".

I guess the bug here is the use of From: to identify the primary author,
because transporting the patch via email adds ambiguity.

Maybe we should introduce "^Author:"?


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-27 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-27 15:51 Jaroslav Kysela
2005-05-27 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-27 17:00   ` Sean
2005-05-27 17:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-27 18:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-27 17:43   ` Jaroslav Kysela
2005-05-27 18:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-27 20:51       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-05-27 20:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-27 21:18         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-05-27 21:19         ` Schneelocke
2005-05-27 22:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-27 22:46           ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-28  2:21             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-28  3:33             ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-05-29  9:06     ` Jaroslav Kysela

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