On 4/23/13 14:23 , Oliver Bock wrote: > On 4/23/13 14:09 , Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >> Sorry Oliver, what about sending patches in the debian format? >> I use dpkg-source for creating them, but I can use format patch too. > > Regular patches don't contain any meta data, like author and datetime > information. git format-patch (followed by git am) does. It's somewhat > important to be able to attribute a given commit/patch to the original > author if, say, in a year from now someone needs additional information > about its content/implementation. You want to be able to ask the patch's > original author about it.
Also, you might want to get credit for your work :-) _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
