> > All the information from the contributor should now be available in > > the main repo as well. > - what I > was asking here is how after someone has merged the changes, we can > keep track of where they came from (relying on an external repo url > is not realistic for this, in case it goes away in the future). Oh, sorry i forgot to mention what 'all the information from the contributor' means: .) the contributors name (or whatever he set with git-config user.name xxxx) .) the contributors email (same with git-config user.email) .) the sha1 of the patch which uniquely identifies the changes .) timstamp of original commit .) timestamp of merge .) comment
full doc can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#commit-object Btw: Patches may not only be merged via git-fetch ing from others repos but could also via email. See git-format-patch / git-am for handling patches via email. There is a good manpage about the process at ko: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/core-tutorial.html Machen Sie Yahoo! zu Ihrer Startseite. Los geht's: http://de.yahoo.com/set --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
