Re: [Odd commit author id merge via netdev]

[santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>]

On 4/1/2016 1:01 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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 <emaid-id>
>>
>> But the commits going via your tree seems to be like below..
>> 	Author: email-id <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.
>
I will try that. Thanks for the tip.

Reagrds,
Santosh