Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> >
> > Okay, sorry for this small bug. I'll recreate the ALSA git tree with
> > proper comments again. Also, the author is not correct (should be taken
> > from the first Signed-off-by:).
>
> Hmm.. That's not always true in general, since Sign-off does allow to sign
> off on other peoples patches (see the "(b)" clause in DCO), but maybe in
> the ALSA tree it is.
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: <[email protected]>
...
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:"?
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