From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH] tagger id Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:36:33 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 15 02:37:00 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtECH-0000pL-7Q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:36:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262872AbVGOAgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:36:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262934AbVGOAgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:36:53 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:64188 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262872AbVGOAgw (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:36:52 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j6F0aciQ020245; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:36:38 -0600 Received: (from eric@localhost) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j6F0aXJ5020244; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:36:33 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com: eric set sender to ebiederm@xmission.com using -f To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:42:13 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano writes: > I am afraid I do not follow you. I was confused. My big problem was that we don't really have an in tree user, and there wasn't a good explanation anywhere. So it was hard to track this down. I'm going to lobby for a script to import patches from email being in the git tree just so people can see how this is done, and probably because there are a lot of people who have been reinventing this script :) > The intent of "tags" (especially the signed kind) is to express "trust": > "This commit is called v2.6.12 and *I* vouch for it." > > COMMITTER is the only sensible thing to use there, because (as you said) > what you care is "who I am", not "for whom I am doing this" Sounds good. Eric