Dear Igor Grinberg, In message <4ece39a9.4080...@compulab.co.il> you wrote: > > >> As for my understanding, the delivery path ends with the repository > >> from which the pull process starts. > > > > That makes no sense either. What about the case where the author > > provides (say, for convenience) a git repository where we can pull > > from, instead of applying the posting from the ML or PW? > > Well, I don't see how this is different from the custodian case, > except that contributor is not a custodian.
So would the custodian have to sign then, or not? If yes, how would he do in a convenient way (git pull does not provide a "-s" option or similar to auto-sign all pulled commits [which would not make sense to me anyway])? If no, then what is the difference between the git pull and - say - a git am ? > > Hm... what's the difference then between pulling from a tree or > > cherry picking from it? What about rebasing a tree? > > Cherry picking changes the commit id even if there are no conflicts > and can be done only on one commit at a time. I cannot see what is special with a commit id in the context of signing a patch, or not. My understanding is that the SCM is just an unrelated tool here, andw e could use SVN or even (ick!) CVS instead, and still the concept of Signed-off-by:s should and would work. > Let me make it clear, I'm not arguing that one way is better > then another. I just thought that we are following the Linux > model, as there is no document describing, how this thing > should be done. Is there a document that describes exactly how this is be done for Linux? So far, all our conclusions appear to be derived from observations. > Again, no rule - is kind of rule, but it would be nice to have > a document describing this decision, so less questions will arise. Agreed. Does Linux have such a thing? [I could not find anything that goes into more detail than the SP file, which IMO is not really clear about that.] Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
