On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:55:37AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > 2010/9/28 Ben Dooks <[email protected]>: > > > It means that if your tree is handling external patches, then you could end > > up with the situation where it is difficult or almost impossible to undo > > a change which the original sender either did not have the authority to > > send, or has something in that should have never been sent (i've seen > > several issues where companies have had desperate back-peddling because > > someone forgot to remove some $secret from the repository before allowing > > it to be uploaded somewhere). > > We actually have that part under control, believe it or not :-)
Ok, but it is probably useful for other people out there. > > It would have been helpful to add a 'From:' line as well, git can be > > made to re-write the authour of a patch, but you'll have to search for > > it. Please find a method for future reference. > > I'm on it... thanks Ben. My personal view is to always keep attributions. Even if they are then posted through someone else, or require a corporate stamp on them before they get out of the building. Let me know what you'd like to do, and I'll sort out something for -next. -- Ben Q: What's a light-year? A: One-third less calories than a regular year. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
