Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:53:51 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the scsi tree |
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Hi James,
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:41:36 -0700 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote: > > The rule, I believe, is that only the person who transforms the email > to a git tree should be the last signoff in the commit log, even if > they're a tree pulling into another one and thereafter the signoffs go > in the merge commit, so the signoff sent by me in the signed tag when I > send the main tree to Linus is my signoff for transmitting all the > commits, which includes the rebased ones in this instance.
According to Linus:
"Rebasing really is pretty much the exact same thing as applying a patch."
And so should have a Signed-off-by from the committer.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell
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