Re: [GIT PULL] ftrace: Rewrite of function graph to allow multiple users

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:01:13 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 13:27, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (3):
> > Steven Rostedt (Google) (27):
> > Steven Rostedt (VMware) (15):  
> 
> So this is getting annoying. Now the company name literally means that
> "git shortlog" shows you as two different people.
> 
> You're not the only one to do it, but the list of people who do it is
> not all that long, and it doesn't actually seem to be a company rule
> since (a) you've done it across companies and (b) other people at
> google don't do it.
> 
> The company you work at does not define you as a person. Really. Is
> there some reason why this is happening?
> 
> Can it be useful to see where people are working? Sure. But does it
> have to be in every commit and affect things like 'git shortlog"? No.
> 
> Is there a company rule that just most others are happily ignoring?

I started this when I was at Red Hat because there was pressure for me
to use my Red Hat email. I only use my "goodmis.org" email, and that's
the one I use for my upstream work no matter who I work for. But the
company is the one that pays me to do the work.

When I started at VMware, it was company policy to use the vmware
email. Dirk for his part was able to get an exception for me and
others, but we had to add that "(VMware)" to our commits. It's a way to
show who owns the code.

So no, I'm not different people, but I wrote that code while at
different companies, and the code with "(VMware)" is to be copyright
VMware, and the code with "(Google)" is copyright Google.

Basically, it's just to show who owns the copyright.

-- Steve