Attribution of patches in the git tree...
Folks,
Just noticed that all the btree factoring patches in the master tree are attributed to Christoph, even when his patch descriptions gave a different attribution for the source of the patch. e.g:
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[XFS] implement generic
xfs_btree_incrementFrom: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Because this is the first major generic btree routine this patch includes some infrastrucure, first a few routines to deal with a btree block that can be either in short or long form, second
xfs_btree_read_buf_block, which is the new central routine to read a btree block given a cursor, and third the newxfs_btree_ptr_addrroutine to calculate the address for a given btree pointer record.
The description has a "From: blah" line indicates the author of the patch was not the person who sent the patch. i.e. the git "author" is incorrect, and the only way to find that out is by looking at the commit description.
In future, can we please get the attribution for patches correct in the git tree so that things like pull requests and historical mining of the trees accurately reflect who the author of the patches really are?
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner [email protected]