On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Daniel Walker [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:01 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:49:55 -0800
Daniel Walker [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 12:44 -0800, Dima Zavin wrote:

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Really though? Let's look at one of them:

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? ? ? 2 Arve Hj?nnev?g [off-list ref]
? ? ? 6 Brian Swetland [off-list ref]
? ? ?14 Dima Zavin [off-list ref]
? ? ? 2 Haley Teng [off-list ref]
? ? ? 1 Iliyan Malchev [off-list ref]
? ? ? 5 Mike Chan [off-list ref]

I'll add this list into the commit text ..

Sounds like a good example of a patch where you should preserve the
author field as well.

preserve it as who ?

My main point is that the authorship of this code is VERY easy to
ascertain. It is not like a lot of other vendor code that gets thrown
over the wall as a tarball. We really do our best to follow the right
practices, give the right credits, create legible well separated
commits, etc.

--Dima