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Re: Diffs "from" working directory

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CMCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2005, 10:35 UTC
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On 22/11/05, Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
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> Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > My import command sets the author to the e-mail sender, which was you.
>
> 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.

If you import a patch file and don't specify an author (and the patch is not an e-mail), the first Signed-off-by: line is used. As Linus mentioned, we could get rid of this assumption entirely and just report an error if no author information is given.

-- Catalin

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  1. J. Bruce FieldsNov 20, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsNov 20, 2005
  3. J. Bruce FieldsNov 20, 2005
  4. Chuck LeverNov 21, 2005
  5. Catalin MarinasNov 21, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2005
  7. Catalin MarinasNov 21, 2005
  8. Chuck LeverNov 22, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsNov 22, 2005
  10. Chuck LeverNov 22, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsNov 22, 2005
  12. Catalin MarinasNov 22, 2005

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