Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jul 29 2013 - 09:00:40 EST


On Monday, July 29, 2013 12:31:37 PM Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
>
> > - Developement process: Jon Corbet's article about our changelog raised
> > one interesting question: How can we better track how single SOB
> > patches are getting merged ?

That actually is simple enough.

Check out the Linus' master branch and do

$ git log --ancestry-path --merges <commit>..

and read the log from the bottom to the top.

> > Should maintainers add their SOB when
> > they pull from subsystems maintainers (If they can) ? This is
> > something I care about from both my MFD and NFC maintainer
> > perspectives as I both pull from MFD sub maintainers and am John
> > Linville's NFC sub maintainer.
>
> This is difficult ... I think that in some sense merging from subsystem
> maintainer tree can be viewed as an "implicit" Signoff, although this
> hasn't been formalized anywhere.
>
> I am afraid there is no way git could handle this easily without rebasing.

No, there's none, as you'll always change the commit hash by adding tags to it.

Thanks,
Rafael

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