On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors. As git only > can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give > credit to the other developers of a commit. To address this, document > the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of > the patch. > > Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it > is their work that is being submitted here. > > Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I see no uses of this tag yet, and I'd like to get it right. If patch v1 was written by author A, then heavily modified and sent by author B to produce patch v2, what should the resulting states of git-author, and tag order be? I'm assuming it should be: git-author: B ... Signed-off-by: A Co-Developed-by: A Signed-off-by: B It's not clear to me if git-author should instead be A, and/or Co-Developed-by should be B... Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
