Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 May 2005 23:19:13 +0200 | From | Schneelocke <> | Subject | Re: ALSA official git repository |
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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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