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SubjectRe: ALSA official git repository
On 27/05/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Yes, I'll occasionally do patches which were written by "A" as:
>
> From: A
> ...
> Signed-off-by: B
>
> And that comes through email as:
>
> ...
> From: <akpm@osdl.org>
> ...
> From: A
> ...
> Signed-off-by: B
>
> which means that the algorithm for identifying the author is "the final
> From:".
>
> I guess the bug here is the use of From: to identify the primary author,
> because transporting the patch via email adds ambiguity.
>
> Maybe we should introduce "^Author:"?

How about "^Written-by:"? That seems to fit in much more nicely with
"Signed-off-by:".

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