From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 17:03:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git-quiltimport
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605161001190.3866@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1k68l6hga.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>



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