Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc6

Pavel Machek
2005-06-06T21:41:46Z

Hi!

> > I thought you are taking "first From: in the body", not "From: only if
> > it is first line in the body". [Could you perhaps modify your scripts
> > to take "first From: in the body"? It seems logical to put From "near"
> > Signed-of-by: lines...
>
> I really don't want to, for a number of reasons. Most notably because I
> don't want to mix things up with the sign-off, because authorship and
> sign-off are really separate things (sign-offs accumulate, authorship
> stays), but also because it's not entirely unambiguous to parse these
> things. With the "first line only" rule, it ends up being pretty clear
> what's going on when the script suddenly ate one line..

Okay, I see. I'm little afraid that during forwards blank line will be
inserted before "From: " and break this, but lets see how it works.

Pavel