Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:21:00 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeout mechanism |
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On Mon 2008-02-25 14:19:47, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Mon 2008-02-25 11:01:08, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > > From: Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com> > > > > Why is this good idea? > > It preserves the original author when the patch is applied by git. > Otherwise the author of the email would be classified as the author of > the patch, which is not the correct thing to have happen a lot of times > (like this one.)
Sorry, that was not what I meant. The patch had no changelog at the top, and I was complaining about that fact. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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