From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753830Ab3G2NA0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:00:26 -0400 Received: from hydra.sisk.pl ([212.160.235.94]:45975 "EHLO hydra.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857Ab3G2NAZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:00:25 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Jiri Kosina , Samuel Ortiz Cc: ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, LKML Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:10:33 +0200 Message-ID: <7008541.g5m1pJPVp1@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.10.0+; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20130729102452.GA2682@zurbaran> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, July 29, 2013 12:31:37 PM Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > > > - Developement process: Jon Corbet's article about our changelog raised > > one interesting question: How can we better track how single SOB > > patches are getting merged ? That actually is simple enough. Check out the Linus' master branch and do $ git log --ancestry-path --merges .. and read the log from the bottom to the top. > > Should maintainers add their SOB when > > they pull from subsystems maintainers (If they can) ? This is > > something I care about from both my MFD and NFC maintainer > > perspectives as I both pull from MFD sub maintainers and am John > > Linville's NFC sub maintainer. > > This is difficult ... I think that in some sense merging from subsystem > maintainer tree can be viewed as an "implicit" Signoff, although this > hasn't been formalized anywhere. > > I am afraid there is no way git could handle this easily without rebasing. No, there's none, as you'll always change the commit hash by adding tags to it. Thanks, Rafael