From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:46:25 GMT
Subject: Re: ALSA official git repository
Message-ID: <20050527154625.5490f405.akpm@osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271502240.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > which means that the algorithm for identifying the author is "the final
> > From:".
> 
> No, the algorithm is:
>  - the email author, _or_ if there is one, the top "From:" in the body.

That all assumes that the tools are smart enough to separate the email
headers from the body :(