Hi,
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:32:59PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Signed-off-by: and Acked-by: always corresponds to the latest
added patch, unless otherwise noted. Since each patch and each comment has a timestamp, everything is clear, right?
So two patches by Uwe on a ticket with 3 comments -- yeah sure we can handle that. Now how about a ticket with 12 proposed patches by 4 people, each fixing part of the problem, some superseded by newer patches; and all of that intermingled with some odd 100 comments? Can you still align that so that you clearly see or supposed "paper" track of origin of the code?
Where appropriate different issues should be "outsourced" to different tickets. Yes, there will probably be some tickets with a huge number of comments and patches. But that should be an exception.
Maybe this is all just a symptom of a greater problem: patches should always be presented with a proposed check-in comment, and the signed-off-by should be part of that comment.
Yes, definately. I tried to do this for my last few patches already. It should be documented correctly in the development guidelines, though (those need some updates currently).
Uwe.