From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the scsi tree
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:53:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170809095351.646496a8@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1502235696.2736.120.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Hi James,
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:41:36 -0700 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>
> The rule, I believe, is that only the person who transforms the email
> to a git tree should be the last signoff in the commit log, even if
> they're a tree pulling into another one and thereafter the signoffs go
> in the merge commit, so the signoff sent by me in the signed tag when I
> send the main tree to Linus is my signoff for transmitting all the
> commits, which includes the rebased ones in this instance.
According to Linus:
"Rebasing really is pretty much the exact same thing as
applying a patch."
And so should have a Signed-off-by from the committer.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-08 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-08 23:27 linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the scsi tree Stephen Rothwell
2017-08-08 23:41 ` James Bottomley
2017-08-08 23:53 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2017-08-09 16:24 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-08-09 16:32 ` James Bottomley
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