Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:03:50 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xen: Implement getgeo for Xen virtual block device. |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > This isn't a problem with things like "Signed-off-by:" etc tags, because > they have no automated meaning and don't really change the commit itself, > but the "From:"/"Date:"/"Subject:" markers at the head of the message > really do have real meaning, and get removed from the commit message and > instead get put into the SCM headers. >
It may be worth having a definitive and unambiguous Author: tag then, which can appear among Signed-off-by:s and is used in preference to anything else. From: is a useful heuristic which seems to work well in general, but as you say, it gets a bit hairy when you have something which means different things to different parts of the software stack at the same time.
J
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