Re: uclinux patches submission and author credit

Re: uclinux patches submission and author credit

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Philippe,

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:36 +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
 > Hi Andrew and Greg,
 >
 > Currently, all the patches that are submitted via Greg are marked as
 > authored by Greg.  Actually, the author is named in the first
 > Signed-off-by line (often Greg himself, sometimes someone other).
 >
 > Would it be possible to fix the patch submission scheme so that the real
 > author is credited ?

Currently if I submit a patch that was sent to me with a
Signed-off-by line I just add mine underneath it and send.
If the patch didn't come with a Signed-off-by then I put the
original author in a "From" line at the top of the submission.
Looks like I should always add a "From" line.

Regards
Greg



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Re: uclinux patches submission and author credit

[Philippe De Muyter]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:20:54PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:

> Currently if I submit a patch that was sent to me with a
> Signed-off-by line I just add mine underneath it and send.
> If the patch didn't come with a Signed-off-by then I put the
> original author in a "From" line at the top of the submission.
> Looks like I should always add a "From" line.

That's fine. Thanks.  I didn't know either about the From: field.

Philippe

uclinux patches submission and author credit

[Philippe De Muyter]

Hi Andrew and Greg,

Currently, all the patches that are submitted via Greg are marked as
authored by Greg.  Actually, the author is named in the first
Signed-off-by line (often Greg himself, sometimes someone other).

Would it be possible to fix the patch submission scheme so that the real
author is credited ?

Thanks in advance

Philippe

Re: uclinux patches submission and author credit

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:36 +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Hi Andrew and Greg,
> 
> Currently, all the patches that are submitted via Greg are marked as
> authored by Greg.  Actually, the author is named in the first
> Signed-off-by line (often Greg himself, sometimes someone other).
> 
> Would it be possible to fix the patch submission scheme so that the real
> author is credited ?

The easiest GIT way to do this is to put a 

From: <your name> 

in the body of the description; then everything automatically flows from
there..