From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: santosh shilimkar Subject: Re: [Odd commit author id merge via netdev] Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 15:15:18 -0700 Message-ID: <56FEF2F6.4090302@oracle.com> References: <56FEB50E.4060004@oracle.com> <1459540904.3342.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Johannes Berg , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:17411 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752708AbcDAWP0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:15:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1459540904.3342.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 >> >> 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. > I will try that. Thanks for the tip. Reagrds, Santosh