[Odd commit author id merge via netdev]

Hi Dave,

I noticed something odd while checking the recent commits of mine in kernel.org tree made it via netdev.

Don't know if its patchwork tool doing this.
Usual author line in my git objects :
Author: Santosh Shilimkar <emaid-id>

But the commits going via your tree seems to be like below..
Author: email-id <email-id>

Few more examples of the commits end of the email. Can this be fixed for future commits ? The git objects you pulled from my tree directly have right author format where as ones which are picked from patchworks seems to be odd.

Quoted 9 lines · santosh shilimkar

Hi Dave,

I noticed something odd while checking the recent commits of mine in kernel.org tree made it via netdev.

Don't know if its patchwork tool doing this.
Usual author line in my git objects :
Author: Santosh Shilimkar <emaid-id>

Quoted 8 lines

But the commits going via your tree seems to be like below..
Author: email-id <email-id>

Few more examples of the commits end of the email. Can this be fixed for future commits ? The git objects you pulled from my tree directly have right author format where as ones which are picked from patchworks seems to be odd.

Patchwork does store this info somehow and re-use it, quite possibly from the very first patch you ever sent. I think this bug was *just* fixed in patchwork, but it'll probably be a while until that fix lands.

However, you can go and create a patchwork account with the real name, associate it with all the email addresses you use and then I think it'll pick it up. Not entirely sure though, you'll have to test it.

Quoted 19 lines · Johannes Berg

Quoted 17 lines · santosh shilimkar

Hi Dave,

I noticed something odd while checking the recent commits of mine in kernel.org tree made it via netdev.

Don't know if its patchwork tool doing this.
Usual author line in my git objects :
Author: Santosh Shilimkar <emaid-id>

But the commits going via your tree seems to be like below..
Author: email-id <email-id>

Few more examples of the commits end of the email. Can this be fixed for future commits ? The git objects you pulled from my tree directly have right author format where as ones which are picked from patchworks seems to be odd.

Quoted 8 lines

Patchwork does store this info somehow and re-use it, quite possibly from the very first patch you ever sent. I think this bug was *just* fixed in patchwork, but it'll probably be a while until that fix lands.

However, you can go and create a patchwork account with the real name, associate it with all the email addresses you use and then I think it'll pick it up. Not entirely sure though, you'll have to test it.

Thought of letting you know that creating username didn't seems to help. I did create a patchwork account and associated the email ids I use for commits after last email exchange.

Now it got tested with Dave's 'net' tree commits indirectly. The patchwork commit format still seems to be "Author: email-id <email-id>" irrespective of patchwork user name for me.