Re: arcmsr changelog differs from diffs

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> On 2007.10.17 12:41:11 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > Dear Björn,
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 02:53 schrieb Björn Steinbrink:
> > > And then, if I may guess, James probably just noticed that there were
> > > changes left and commited them (while they were now down to just the
> > > whitespace change), without checking what changes were actually left (no
> > > offense intended). At least I think that git wouldn't cripple the diff
> > > if the changes that James checked in were not already whitespace-only at
> > > the time he commited them, and the git history of his tree seems to
> > > agree.
> > (*) Thanks for the clarification, Björn. What made me stumbling was the 
> > different orginators, while Jeff isn't known with catching attention by 
> > assimilating other peoples contributions. 
>
> I'm just guessing here, and certainly don't want to blame anyone, but
> Jeff's original patch was from July, while the only date I can find for
> Nick's commit is September 13th. So it was probably Nick who integrated
> Jeff's changes into his commit 

Correct.

It's also quite normal for the maintainer to grab a patch off the list, 
integrate/massage/change it, and then apply it himself.

	Jeff


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