From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
To: cel@citi.umich.edu
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Diffs "from" working directory
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:35:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0511220235kf314b5dy@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4382A972.1010801@citi.umich.edu>
On 22/11/05, Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > My import command sets the author to the e-mail sender, which was you.
>
> for some reason i was under the impression that it would parse the
> Signed-off-by: fields in the patch description, and take the first one
> as the patch author.
If you import a patch file and don't specify an author (and the patch
is not an e-mail), the first Signed-off-by: line is used. As Linus
mentioned, we could get rid of this assumption entirely and just
report an error if no author information is given.
--
Catalin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-22 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200511201817.15780.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
2005-11-20 17:43 ` Diffs "from" working directory J. Bruce Fields
2005-11-20 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-20 20:58 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-11-21 1:53 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-21 21:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-21 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-21 21:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-22 5:15 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-22 5:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 18:03 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-22 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 10:35 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
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