Pavel Machek
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:26:05 -0800
On Mon 2008-02-25 14:19:47, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Mon 2008-02-25 11:01:08, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > > From: Sven Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Why is this good idea? > > It preserves the original author when the patch is applied by git. > Otherwise the author of the email would be classified as the author of > the patch, which is not the correct thing to have happen a lot of times > (like this one.)
Sorry, that was not what I meant. The patch had no changelog at the
top, and I was complaining about that fact.
Pavel
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