Re: Diffs "from" working directory

On 22/11/05, Chuck Lever [off-list ref] wrote:

Catalin Marinas wrote:

quoted

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.

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Catalin