Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262602AbVE0VTl (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 17:19:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262601AbVE0VTk (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 17:19:40 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]:57469 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262600AbVE0VTT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 17:19:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MYUzfs75T0wmUhuE7vc2CkglFSAMn/X8JeLseqdtURX/3/IuhwNQgFEAgV5Rw+qVwwZUxWCQRxl1XQ8RFSzgRsf4peKN84KNI4GIXz+xrq1+RYS13OyqfxI2EYNtPBw3Du61flz1Tkk5jmNCB2+nT0wyDy0Pm7g2gXHeGD1HPAc= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 23:19:13 +0200 From: Schneelocke Reply-To: Schneelocke To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: ALSA official git repository Cc: Linus Torvalds , perex@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050527135124.0d98c33e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050527135124.0d98c33e.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 878 Lines: 34 On 27/05/05, Andrew Morton wrote: > Yes, I'll occasionally do patches which were written by "A" as: > > From: A > ... > Signed-off-by: B > > And that comes through email as: > > ... > From: > ... > From: A > ... > Signed-off-by: B > > which means that the algorithm for identifying the author is "the final > From:". > > I guess the bug here is the use of From: to identify the primary author, > because transporting the patch via email adds ambiguity. > > Maybe we should introduce "^Author:"? How about "^Written-by:"? That seems to fit in much more nicely with "Signed-off-by:". -- schnee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/