From: Catalin Marinas Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:35:34 GMT Subject: Re: Diffs "from" working directory Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4382A972.1010801@citi.umich.edu> On 22/11/05, Chuck Lever wrote: > 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