Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933686AbXJQWex (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:34:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758185AbXJQWep (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:34:45 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46838 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757641AbXJQWeo (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:34:44 -0400 Message-ID: <47168DFD.6030900@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:34:37 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Steinbrink?= CC: Hans-Peter Jansen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, nick.cheng@areca.com.tw Subject: Re: arcmsr changelog differs from diffs References: <200710170007.20454.hpj@urpla.net> <20071017005342.GA14212@atjola.homenet> <200710171241.12575.hpj@urpla.net> <20071017130145.GA15918@atjola.homenet> In-Reply-To: <20071017130145.GA15918@atjola.homenet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1485 Lines: 36 Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > Hi Hans, > > On 2007.10.17 12:41:11 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: >> Dear Bj?rn, >> >> Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 02:53 schrieb Bj?rn Steinbrink: >>> And then, if I may guess, James probably just noticed that there were >>> changes left and commited them (while they were now down to just the >>> whitespace change), without checking what changes were actually left (no >>> offense intended). At least I think that git wouldn't cripple the diff >>> if the changes that James checked in were not already whitespace-only at >>> the time he commited them, and the git history of his tree seems to >>> agree. >> (*) Thanks for the clarification, Bj?rn. What made me stumbling was the >> different orginators, while Jeff isn't known with catching attention by >> assimilating other peoples contributions. > > I'm just guessing here, and certainly don't want to blame anyone, but > Jeff's original patch was from July, while the only date I can find for > Nick's commit is September 13th. So it was probably Nick who integrated > Jeff's changes into his commit Correct. It's also quite normal for the maintainer to grab a patch off the list, integrate/massage/change it, and then apply it himself. Jeff - 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/