linux-ext4 - Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

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Message-ID: <20070705142602.GE341@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:26:02 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:16PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 03, 2007  23:27 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > With respect to ext4-patch-queue it is kind of difficult to find who wrote the patch.
> > > I guess we can solve this by adding From: < author name > in the patches. This will make sure
> > > when the patches get applied to linus tree we have the right author.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Aneesh, I will add From: <authro> for all patches in ext4 patch
> > queue.
> 
> You may as well add "Signed-off-by: <author>", since that is the standard
> way to do this.  If you have any questions about who wrote a particular
> CFS patch I can tell you.

In general the first Signed-off-by: is the author, yes.  I believe
what Aneesh is talking about is formatting the patches so that when
they are pulled into git, "git log" shows the correct author information.

     	 	     	       	    - Ted
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