On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:41 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 16:55 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 16:42 -0800, Dima Zavin wrote: > > > You are not the author of any of these patches. Where are the author > > > attributions for the team that actually wrote this code? > > In the commit text.. The author field is used to denote who authored the > > commit, which in this case is me. > > You have that wrong. > Author and Committer are different git fields. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html > > * an author: The name of the person responsible for this change, > together with its date. > * a committer: The name of the person who actually created the > commit, with the date it was done. This may be different from > the author, for example, if the author was someone who wrote a > patch and emailed it to the person who used it to create the > commit. I'm not even sure how to make these different, but in this case it doesn't matter because the "committer" as you defined it above is more than one person .. Daniel -- Sent by an consultant of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
