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SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen: Implement getgeo for Xen virtual block device.
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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