On 27/05/05, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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:"?
How about "^Written-by:"? That seems to fit in much more nicely with
"Signed-off-by:".
--
schnee
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