[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] patman: don't mess with signoffs
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sun Sep 2 16:24:46 CEST 2012
Dear Ilya Yanok,
In message <1344332768-11891-5-git-send-email-ilya.yanok at cogentembedded.com> you wrote:
> Currently patman assumes that there should be only one Signoff line
> and this is obviously incorrect: we often have to work with patches
> containing other people signoffs. Moreover, it's really desirable
> to preserve the comments between signoffs.
>
> So until some sophisticated signoff processing will be developed I
> suggest just don't mess with signoffs at all and treat them like
> plain text lines. The only drawback I've found so far is the case
> where you have a patch with someones else signoff but not yours and
> also have to patman tags under signoff line. In this case you will
> get extra empty line between signoffs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <ilya.yanok at cogentembedded.com>
> ---
> tools/patman/patchstream.py | 13 ++-----------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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