Re: Diffs "from" working directory

From: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Nov 22, 2005, 05:15 UTC
Message-ID: <4382A972.1010801@citi.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0511211328j7c062c07s@mail.gmail.com>

Catalin Marinas wrote:

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>>btw, catalin, this was bruce's patch.  i'm not sure why i was listed as
>>the author (probably a mistake of mine when i imported his patch into my
>>repository).  ah well.
> 
> 
> My import command sets the author to the e-mail sender, which was you.
> Maybe this should be changed but I don't know which option is better.
> In the meantime, you can change the default e-mail template to set the
> From: line with to the author of the patch and maybe add a Reply-to:
> with your address.

for some reason i was under the impression that it would parse the 
Signed-off-by: fields in the patch description, and take the first one 
as the patch author.

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