linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support

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Message-Id: <C4B33E70-E4B2-4C56-8C53-D9EFA283384D@mit.edu>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:41:15 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@...gle.com>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davidb@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support


On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> The authors may be different, but the first git
> committer of the patch is different.
> 
> The committer is the person that does a git commit
> either directly with git commit or git am.
> 
> You should keep the original patch author names and
> add your own "Signed-off-by:" and not claim authorship
> of the patches themselves.
> 

For example, many people send me patches for the ext4 tree.

Even if I get the patches from somewhere else, say the SuSE RPM, I will try to determine the author, and use that as the author field in the patches.  If I put a

From: The Original Author <author@...ginal.com>

in the patch before I suck it in using git am, it will use the original author in the Author field.   I will add my Signed-off-by, preserving the other Signed-off-by's, and my name will appear in the Committer field, which is as it should be.

-- Ted

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