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Re: [PATCH] Implement git-quiltimport

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 16, 2006, 17:03 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605161001190.3866@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 16 May 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> If the --author flag was not given the the author is recorded as 
> unknown.

Please don't do this. Just error out. It would be horrible to have a quilt import "succeed", and then later notice that some of the patches had incorrect authorship attribution just because the import script didn't check it, but just made it "unknown".

An un-attributed patch is simply not acceptable in any serious project. It's much better to consider it an error than to say "ok".

		Linus
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Message 2 of 24 in “Implement git-quiltimport”
  1. Implement git-quiltimportEric W. Biederman, May 16, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 16, 2006
  3. Eric W. BiedermanMay 16, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2006
  5. Eric W. BiedermanMay 17, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  7. Implement git-quiltimport (take 2)Eric W. Biederman, May 17, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  9. Eric W. BiedermanMay 17, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  11. Eric W. BiedermanMay 18, 2006
  12. Greg KHMay 19, 2006
  13. Eric W. BiedermanMay 20, 2006
  14. Greg KHMay 20, 2006
  15. Eric W. BiedermanMay 21, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2006
  17. Eric W. BiedermanMay 21, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2006
  19. Eric W. BiedermanMay 21, 2006
  20. Greg KHJun 1, 2006
  21. Eric W. BiedermanJun 2, 2006
  22. Eric W. BiedermanMay 19, 2006
  23. Implement a --dry-run option to git-quiltimportEric W. Biederman, May 17, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006

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