| Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 12:20:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission |
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On Sun, 23 May 2004, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > Andrew already puts the "From:" thing in the patch comment, so this should > be simply a matter of replacing "From:" with "Signed-off-by:", preserving > it in logs, and documenting the thing in the patch submission doc. No?
Yes and no.
Right now it is _Andrew_ that does the From: line from you. In the sign-off procedure, it would be _you_ who add the "Signed-off-by:" line for yourself.
(And then Andrew would sign off on the fact that you signed off).
Not a big difference, I agree.
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