From: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time
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cc: corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:50:40 -0800
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	(Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:00:36 -0800 (PST)")
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> +
>> +These tags are:
>> +
>> +From: 	   	The original author of the patch.  This tag will ensure
>> +		that credit is properly given when somebody other than the
>> +		original author submits the patch.
>
> "From:" is not a tag. It's a special marker at the *top* (and _only_ the 
> top) of the email, which indicates authorship. It goes along with markers 
> like "Date:" and "Subject:", and has nothing to do with the sign-off-like 
> tags at the end.

True.  When one or more of these appear at the top (and _only_
the top) of a patch e-mail,

	From:		the person who wrote the patch
        Date:		the date of the authorship
        Subject:	the title of the patch

we override the corresponding values we obtain from the mail
header.  Documenting them is probably a good idea but they
should be described separately from S-o-b: and friends to avoid
confusion.


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