finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

Hi Mingming,

With respect to ext4-patch-queue it is kind of difficult to find who wrote the patch.
I guess we can solve this by adding From: < author name > in the patches. This will make sure
when the patches get applied to linus tree we have the right author.

with the below diff to noextent_mount option patch i get the below history when applying the patches
using stgit via stgit --import --series 


diff --git a/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch b/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
index c349afb..e9a8d6f 100644
--- a/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
+++ b/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
 Add a mount option to turn off extents.
 
 Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>

$ git log 
commit f89bcb4ca03dde8b12d3c722483aae84c3d2072d
Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 4 10:32:19 2007 +0530

    Add a mount option to turn off extents.
    
    Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>

Without the change: I get below

commit 4a4f228f99e263767fe5b395cdb843a5c5d083fe
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 4 10:05:19 2007 +0530

    Turn on extents feature by default in ext4 filesystem. User could use
    -o noextents to turn it off.
    
    Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>


-aneesh

Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

[Mingming Cao]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi Mingming,
> 
> With respect to ext4-patch-queue it is kind of difficult to find who wrote the patch.
> I guess we can solve this by adding From: < author name > in the patches. This will make sure
> when the patches get applied to linus tree we have the right author.
> 

Thanks, Aneesh, I will add From: <authro> for all patches in ext4 patch
queue.

Mingming
> with the below diff to noextent_mount option patch i get the below history when applying the patches
> using stgit via stgit --import --series 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch b/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
> index c349afb..e9a8d6f 100644
> --- a/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
> +++ b/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
>  Add a mount option to turn off extents.
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> 
> $ git log 
> commit f89bcb4ca03dde8b12d3c722483aae84c3d2072d
> Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 4 10:32:19 2007 +0530
> 
>     Add a mount option to turn off extents.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Without the change: I get below
> 
> commit 4a4f228f99e263767fe5b395cdb843a5c5d083fe
> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 4 10:05:19 2007 +0530
> 
>     Turn on extents feature by default in ext4 filesystem. User could use
>     -o noextents to turn it off.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> 
> 
> -aneesh
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Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 03, 2007  23:27 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > With respect to ext4-patch-queue it is kind of difficult to find who wrote the patch.
> > I guess we can solve this by adding From: < author name > in the patches. This will make sure
> > when the patches get applied to linus tree we have the right author.
> > 
> 
> Thanks, Aneesh, I will add From: <authro> for all patches in ext4 patch
> queue.

You may as well add "Signed-off-by: <author>", since that is the standard
way to do this.  If you have any questions about who wrote a particular
CFS patch I can tell you.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:54 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 03, 2007  23:27 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > With respect to ext4-patch-queue it is kind of difficult to find who wrote the patch.
> > > I guess we can solve this by adding From: < author name > in the patches. This will make sure
> > > when the patches get applied to linus tree we have the right author.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Aneesh, I will add From: <authro> for all patches in ext4 patch
> > queue.
> 
> You may as well add "Signed-off-by: <author>", since that is the standard
> way to do this.  If you have any questions about who wrote a particular
> CFS patch I can tell you.

You should never add someone else's Signed-off-by without being
explicitly asked to do so.

Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue

[Theodore Tso]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:16PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 03, 2007  23:27 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > With respect to ext4-patch-queue it is kind of difficult to find who wrote the patch.
> > > I guess we can solve this by adding From: < author name > in the patches. This will make sure
> > > when the patches get applied to linus tree we have the right author.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Aneesh, I will add From: <authro> for all patches in ext4 patch
> > queue.
> 
> You may as well add "Signed-off-by: <author>", since that is the standard
> way to do this.  If you have any questions about who wrote a particular
> CFS patch I can tell you.

In general the first Signed-off-by: is the author, yes.  I believe
what Aneesh is talking about is formatting the patches so that when
they are pulled into git, "git log" shows the correct author information.

     	 	     	       	    - Ted