Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:14:16 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [git patches] net driver updates for .27 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:33 -0400
> David Miller wrote: > > "Author" is always who wrote the patch, and I think it's important to > > be consistent in that area. > > "always"? There are /plenty/ of occasions, usually at big corps, where > the Author is not the person who wrote the patch, but rather the person > who sent the patch. > > And you'll note that all Linus's tools capture that -- author is patch > sender -- albeit with optional From parsing from patch commit description.
I guess that's a compelling enough argument. I'll pull your original tree, thanks Jeff.
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