linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time

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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:58:10 +1100
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time

On Friday February 8, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > +
> > +These tags are:
> > +
> > +From: 	   	The original author of the patch.  This tag will ensure
> > +		that credit is properly given when somebody other than the
> > +		original author submits the patch.
> 
> "From:" is not a tag. It's a special marker at the *top* (and _only_ the 
> top) of the email, which indicates authorship. It goes along with markers 
> like "Date:" and "Subject:", and has nothing to do with the sign-off-like 
> tags at the end.

You may be right, but when I email patches to akpm that I did not
author, and that don't have a From: tag in the body saying who did
author them, then akpm tells me off.  And I don't like that :-(

Maybe we need "tags in git commit logs" and "tags in email sent to
akpm" and ... :-)

NeilBrown
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