From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Walker Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:58:43 -0800 Message-ID: <1295575123.9236.54.camel@m0nster> References: <1295555565-21563-1-git-send-email-dwalker@codeaurora.org> <1295571359.9236.53.camel@m0nster> <1295574085.4096.6.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:43356 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092Ab1AUB6n (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:58:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1295574085.4096.6.camel@Joe-Laptop> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Cc: Dima Zavin , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidb@codeaurora.org On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:41 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 16:55 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 16:42 -0800, Dima Zavin wrote: > > > You are not the author of any of these patches. Where are the author > > > attributions for the team that actually wrote this code? > > In the commit text.. The author field is used to denote who authored the > > commit, which in this case is me. > > You have that wrong. > Author and Committer are different git fields. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html > > * an author: The name of the person responsible for this change, > together with its date. > * a committer: The name of the person who actually created the > commit, with the date it was done. This may be different from > the author, for example, if the author was someone who wrote a > patch and emailed it to the person who used it to create the > commit. I'm not even sure how to make these different, but in this case it doesn't matter because the "committer" as you defined it above is more than one person .. Daniel -- Sent by an consultant of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.