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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > >>Linus, perhaps your scripts are doing something wrong? They should >>have taken From in the description; or did I provide wrong changelog? > > > My scripts definitely do the expected thing. > > In git, the author is always in the fixed header, and you never look for > it anywhere else. However, in order for the author to _get_ there in the > first place, the person who commits the thing needs to haev the author > info. > > In this case it was me, and I get the author information from the email > when I commit an emailed patch. I take it from the first line of the body > if that one is a valid "From:" line, and otherwise I fall back to taking > it from the headers of the email. > > So in this case you got tagged, either because the patch came through > Andrew (it has his sign-off) and _he_ sent the email but incorrectly had > you as the "From:" person, or alternatively because you sent the email and > took Andrew's sign-off but didn't put the "From:" in the right spot. Any process which only works when multiple people do everything correctly is not going to be robust. Perhaps you want to use the first "signed-off-by" line or some such, rather than relying on mail headers? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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