On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:24:56PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>> I prefer to always s-o-b patches.
>>
>> Think of this scenario; a person sends a patch, it is modified by
>> somebody else, and then applied. Did the original author agree to
>> those changes? If the s-o-b is there, yes, otherwise not. If you don't
>> s-o-b all the patches, you wouldn't know.
>
> I don't see how you can determine this from the s-o-b line.  It is
> not a cryptographic signature, it's easily possible to modify the
> patch and keep the s-o-b line.

Yes, but that's not good manners, specially from a maintainer.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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