On 19 Jan 2016 02:49, Arnaud wrote:
> Le 19. 01. 16 02:41, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
> > On 19 Jan 2016 02:30, Arnaud wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >
> > why does the subject say "committed" ?  this hasn't been committed,
> > so using that tag makes no sense and is just confusing.
> 
> I thought it did:
> [master 0b1697b] Locale fr_CH and it_CH: change first day of the week
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> It didn't ?

i think git is confusing you ;).  "committed" in the e-mail subject means
it has been *pushed* to the common/public repo.  it does not refer to you
making a local commit to your personal fork.

> >>  From 0b1697b6d875d5de861e9f68ff8c0d2b82fd8544 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Arnaud <xxx@xxx.xxx>
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 01:39:54 +0100
> >> Subject: [PATCH] Locale fr_CH and it_CH: change first day of the week
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arnaud <xxx@xxx.xxx>
> >
> > we don't use signed-off-by here, but regardless of that, using "xxx" here
> > is both incorrect and pointless.  we already have your e-mail address and
> > contact info since you sent this e-mail to the list.
> > -mike
> 
> Yes just saw that, sorry.
> I am used to mailing list hiding the email address for the people sending an email to it and just showing the username we chose when we subsrcribed to it.

that's generally not how open source works.  we work in the open and do
not hide ourselves.
-mike