From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: finding the author of the patches in ext4-patch-queue
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:26:02 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:16PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 03, 2007  23:27 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> You may as well add "Signed-off-by: <author>", since that is the standard
> way to do this.  If you have any questions about who wrote a particular
> CFS patch I can tell you.

In general the first Signed-off-by: is the author, yes.  I believe
what Aneesh is talking about is formatting the patches so that when
they are pulled into git, "git log" shows the correct author information.

     	 	     	       	    - Ted