Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 23:44:52 +0530
"Trilok Soni" <soni.trilok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Mauro,
> >
> > Please pull from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb for the
> > following:
> >
> 
> I don't understand "hg" version control tool, but commit shows your
> name as author of this patch, whereas the patch I had sent was having
> --author field as Sakari Ailus. Could you please check this? Thanks.
> 
> author	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>

This is one of the lack of the features on mercurial. It doesn't have a meta
tag for committer. On mercurial, the -hg user and the author should be the same
person.

Since we want to identify the patch origin (e.g. whose v4l/dvb maintainer got
the patch), we use the internal "user" meta-tag as the committer, and an extra
tag, at the patch description for the author (From:).

When creating the -git patch, the "From:" tag is replaced, by script, for
"Author:", I add my SOB there, and, I add myself as the -git committer (on git
we have both meta-tags).




Cheers,
Mauro

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