On 11/04, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 02:35:57PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/04, Brandon Williams wrote:
> > >> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com>
> > >
> > > Is there an acceptable way to give credit to Jeff for helping with this 
> > > patch?
> > 
> > What about:
> > Helped-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
> 
> That, or often I would write:
> 
>   Based on a patch by Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
> 
> in the commit message. Basically anything is OK _except_ forging
> signed-off-by, because it has a very specific meaning. So let me also
> say that I am happy to give my:
> 
>   Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
> 
> to the original (which you should add in, to make clear that the
> copyright issues are OK).
> 
> In some cases it makes sense to just roll somebody's patch into your
> series, and then build on top. I'm fine with it all going into a single
> patch here.
> 
> -Peff

Oh if it would be more clear I can easily break it up into two patches.

-- 
Brandon Williams

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