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Message-ID: <7008541.g5m1pJPVp1@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:10:33 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

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 <commit>..

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

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