On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 13:10 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:48 PM Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 12:18 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > > > The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague. > > > Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately. [] > > And for mismatches, it's really not known that > > it should be one way or the or the other is it? > > > > I think that's true. But since the mail in the > From: part is the one which with others are being > compared, I think maybe it should have the higher > priority, and be treated as the expected one.
I rather expect it to be the other way around. The Signed-off-by: line should be authoritative as that is what is put in the commit log.
