From: Jay Soffian Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:23:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit -s: allow "(cherry picked " lines in sign-off section Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vlj4shoej.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I am not sure I agree with the reasoning of this patch, by the way.  A > cherry-pick is an event that breaks the life of the patch, so it may even > be a sensible thing to do to express "the above sign-off chain shows who > were involved in the original commit; I am cherry-picking it out of > context, and these people do not have much to do with the result" with a > blank line on both sides of the "cherry picked" line, like this: > >        A concise summary of the change > >        A detailed description of the change, why it is needed, what >        was broken and why applying this is the best course of action. > >        Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton >        Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > >        (cherry picked from commit 9d8117e72bf453dd9d85e0cd322ce4a0f8bccbc0) > >        Signed-off-by: Back Porter Or perhaps prefix them with Original-, inspired by email headers, and which I think makes it even more clear that the sob lines don't apply to the new commit.        Original-Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton        Original-Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cherry-picked-from: 9d8117e72bf453dd9d85e0cd322ce4a0f8bccbc0        Signed-off-by: Back Porter j.