From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [Odd commit author id merge via netdev] Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 22:01:44 +0200 Message-ID: <1459540904.3342.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> References: <56FEB50E.4060004@oracle.com> (sfid-20160401_195127_367731_49036B1D) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: santosh shilimkar , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:52110 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751714AbcDAUBs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:01:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <56FEB50E.4060004@oracle.com> (sfid-20160401_195127_367731_49036B1D) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 10:51 -0700, santosh shilimkar wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I noticed something odd while checking the recent > commits of mine in kernel.org tree made it via netdev. > > Don't know if its patchwork tool doing this. > Usual author line in my git objects : > Author: Santosh Shilimkar > > But the commits going via your tree seems to be like below.. > Author: email-id > > Few more examples of the commits end of the email. Can this > be fixed for future commits ? The git objects you pulled from > my tree directly have right author format where as ones which > are picked from patchworks seems to be odd. > Patchwork does store this info somehow and re-use it, quite possibly from the very first patch you ever sent. I think this bug was *just* fixed in patchwork, but it'll probably be a while until that fix lands. However, you can go and create a patchwork account with the real name, associate it with all the email addresses you use and then I think it'll pick it up. Not entirely sure though, you'll have to test it. johannes