The authorship of each patch in a series

Fabio M. De Francesco fmdefrancesco at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 05:00:49 EDT 2021


On Thursday, September 2, 2021 9:22:40 AM CEST Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 09:13:55AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > [...]
> > How can we achieve this?
> 
> Commit the patches to your local tree with the correct authorship
> information (some from you, some from them), and then when you create
> the patch series, the correct names will show up in the email as who
> authored them as the "From:" line.
> 
> Try it locally and see, this happens all the time in kernel development.
> 
> As an example, see all of the stable-kernel -rc release announcements
> with the patches in them.  The original authorship is preserved just
> fine.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
Thank you very much, we will use your suggestion to send that series for  
staging-test as soon as it is fully refined and properly tested.

Regards,

Fabio






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