From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752406AbdHHXxy (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2017 19:53:54 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:46357 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752081AbdHHXxx (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2017 19:53:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:53:51 +1000 From: Stephen Rothwell To: James Bottomley Cc: Linux-Next Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the scsi tree Message-ID: <20170809095351.646496a8@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <1502235696.2736.120.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <20170809092730.1138bf7e@canb.auug.org.au> <1502235696.2736.120.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id v78Ns3xT007368 Hi James, On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:41:36 -0700 James Bottomley wrote: > >  The rule, I believe, is that only the person who transforms the email > to a git tree should be the last signoff in the commit log, even if > they're a tree pulling into another one and thereafter the signoffs go > in the merge commit, so the signoff sent by me in the signed tag when I > send the main tree to Linus is my signoff for transmitting all the > commits, which includes the rebased ones in this instance. According to Linus: "Rebasing really is pretty much the exact same thing as applying a patch." And so should have a Signed-off-by from the committer. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell