On Mon 2008-02-25 14:19:47, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2008-02-25 11:01:08, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> > > From: Sven Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Why is this good idea?
>
> It preserves the original author when the patch is applied by git.
> Otherwise the author of the email would be classified as the author of
> the patch, which is not the correct thing to have happen a lot of times
> (like this one.)
Sorry, that was not what I meant. The patch had no changelog at the
top, and I was complaining about that fact.
Pavel
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