#33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless
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?
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Well I'll paste my comment here then. Here goes:
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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 Now how about a ticket with 12 proposed patches by 4 people, each fixing part of the problem, some superseded by newer patches; and all of that intermingled with some odd 100 comments?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?
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.
Segher