On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > The authors may be different, but the first git > committer of the patch is different. > > The committer is the person that does a git commit > either directly with git commit or git am. > > You should keep the original patch author names and > add your own "Signed-off-by:" and not claim authorship > of the patches themselves. > For example, many people send me patches for the ext4 tree. Even if I get the patches from somewhere else, say the SuSE RPM, I will try to determine the author, and use that as the author field in the patches. If I put a From: The Original Author <author@xxxxxxxxxxxx> in the patch before I suck it in using git am, it will use the original author in the Author field. I will add my Signed-off-by, preserving the other Signed-off-by's, and my name will appear in the Committer field, which is as it should be. -- Ted -- 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
