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Message-ID: <47168DFD.6030900@garzik.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:34:37 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de>
CC: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
James.Bottomley@...eleye.com, nick.cheng@...ca.com.tw
Subject: Re: arcmsr changelog differs from diffs
Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> On 2007.10.17 12:41:11 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>> Dear Björn,
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 02:53 schrieb Björn Steinbrink:
>>> And then, if I may guess, James probably just noticed that there were
>>> changes left and commited them (while they were now down to just the
>>> whitespace change), without checking what changes were actually left (no
>>> offense intended). At least I think that git wouldn't cripple the diff
>>> if the changes that James checked in were not already whitespace-only at
>>> the time he commited them, and the git history of his tree seems to
>>> agree.
>> (*) Thanks for the clarification, Björn. What made me stumbling was the
>> different orginators, while Jeff isn't known with catching attention by
>> assimilating other peoples contributions.
>
> I'm just guessing here, and certainly don't want to blame anyone, but
> Jeff's original patch was from July, while the only date I can find for
> Nick's commit is September 13th. So it was probably Nick who integrated
> Jeff's changes into his commit
Correct.
It's also quite normal for the maintainer to grab a patch off the list,
integrate/massage/change it, and then apply it himself.
Jeff
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