Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"?

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
  i've submitted a number of patches recently and, every time i do a
"git pull", i check the log to see if any of them have been applied so
i can delete them from my personal "submitted but not applied"
directory.  if they've been applied by another author, then naturally
i'll never notice and i'll keep wondering about the delay.

  so what's the protocol here?  are more senior kernel developers
allowed to poach on my patch submissions, tidy them up slightly, then
drop any attribution to me?  enquiring minds *definitely* want this
cleared up.

rday

p.s.  it's possible that this is all just a wild coincidence, of
course.  stranger things have happened.


The protocol is simply to do best to give credit where credit is due. If your patch is taken directly, most likely it is a mistake if attribution was dropped. If your patch was modified, often that patch will get checked in under the name of the person who last touched the change before commit -- and it is their responsibility to make sure and note that the change originally came from you.

	Jeff


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