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From: santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Odd commit author id merge via netdev]
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:13:44 -0700
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On 4/1/2016 3:15 PM, santosh shilimkar wrote:
> On 4/1/2016 1:01 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 10:51 -0700, santosh shilimkar wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.

Regards,
Santosh