From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:27:29 -0400
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On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi Mingming,
> 
> With respect to ext4-patch-queue it is kind of difficult to find who wrote the patch.
> I guess we can solve this by adding From: < author name > in the patches. This will make sure
> when the patches get applied to linus tree we have the right author.
> 

Thanks, Aneesh, I will add From: <authro> for all patches in ext4 patch
queue.

Mingming
> with the below diff to noextent_mount option patch i get the below history when applying the patches
> using stgit via stgit --import --series 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch b/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
> index c349afb..e9a8d6f 100644
> --- a/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
> +++ b/ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
>  Add a mount option to turn off extents.
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> 
> $ git log 
> commit f89bcb4ca03dde8b12d3c722483aae84c3d2072d
> Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 4 10:32:19 2007 +0530
> 
>     Add a mount option to turn off extents.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Without the change: I get below
> 
> commit 4a4f228f99e263767fe5b395cdb843a5c5d083fe
> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 4 10:05:19 2007 +0530
> 
>     Turn on extents feature by default in ext4 filesystem. User could use
>     -o noextents to turn it off.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> 
> 
> -aneesh
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