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From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git commit "Author: [...] via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>" (was: [gcc r11-5068] Update documentation for spec files)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:25:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36e32efb-0152-6b4e-acfa-77db3f4feb39@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnykbafw.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net>



On 11/17/20 2:26 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hi!
>
> (As discussed before...), in 2020, email doesn't work anymore the way it
> did years ago...  ;-/ (Let's please *not* discuss this here.)
>
> So we're now dealing with emails with "From: [...] via Gcc-patches
> <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>", etc.
>
> ... which occasionally then ends up in Git commit author:
>
> On 2020-11-17T00:15:36+0000, Jeff Law via Gcc-cvs <gcc-cvs@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/g:a019766f996f57e53a8d1a9e72033e1e1487a150
>>
>> commit r11-5068-ga019766f996f57e53a8d1a9e72033e1e1487a150
>> Author: Armin Brauns via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
> Should we have a Git commit hook to catch that (and similar variants)?
>
>
> (This is not to blame Jeff, of course; it's very easy to not notice
> that.)
Yea.  I keep having to remember which header to pull the author from.  I
strongly suspected one or more had slipped through.

jeff


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20201117001536.2429D386EC72@sourceware.org>
2020-11-17  9:26 ` Thomas Schwinge
2020-11-17 13:34   ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-11-17 14:25   ` Jeff Law [this message]
2020-11-17 18:44   ` Joseph Myers
2020-11-19  9:01   ` Git commit "Author: [...] via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>" Florian Weimer
2020-11-21 20:19     ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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