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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:53:51 +1000
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc: Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the scsi tree
Hi James,
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:41:36 -0700 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:
>
> The rule, I believe, is that only the person who transforms the email
> to a git tree should be the last signoff in the commit log, even if
> they're a tree pulling into another one and thereafter the signoffs go
> in the merge commit, so the signoff sent by me in the signed tag when I
> send the main tree to Linus is my signoff for transmitting all the
> commits, which includes the rebased ones in this instance.
According to Linus:
"Rebasing really is pretty much the exact same thing as
applying a patch."
And so should have a Signed-off-by from the committer.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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