Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2016, #01; Mon, 4)

Stephen & Linda Smith [off-list ref] writes:

On Monday, January 04, 2016 03:44:33 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:

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 Becoming tired of waiting for a reroll.
 ($gmane/271213).
 Anybody wants to help rerolling this?  Otherwise will discard.

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Becoming tired of waiting for a reroll.
 Anybody wants to help rerolling this?  Otherwise will discard.

 > ($gmane/272180).

What do you mean by rerolling this?  If you mean that you would
like someone to pick up the patch and try and get it though then I
don't mind helping.

More or less.  I do not mind if these topics disappeared, either,
but we have spent review and discussion bandwidth for these
unfinished topics and we may want to take them to the completion.

For my education, how does this affect the sign-off proceedure?

Depending on the extent of changes from the original version, either
you take the authorship (with comment in the log message saying that
it is based on Such and Such's patches) or you still keep them as
the author (with comment in the log message saying that you extended
it in such and such way).  In either case, as long as their original
remains in the resulting patch, you retain their Sign-off and then
add your Sign-off at the end.

If you take the ideas from their series and rewrite everything from
scratch, you would take the authorship, with comment in the log
message saying that you took inspiration from Such and Such's
patches, and have only your Sign-off.