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tytso
on Feb 26, 2015
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The Git game: Guess who on your team wrote a commi...
It's easy for my repositories because I can just take a look at the Signed-Off-By: in the commit body. :-)
saraid216
on Feb 26, 2015
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Isn't that supposed to be the reviewer's name, rather than the person who made the change?
felixc
on Feb 26, 2015
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Not as originally implemented for use in the Linux kernel. It's meant to identify the original author, who is signing off on agreeing to contribute the patch as open source.
See
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
section 11: “Sign your work”.
saraid216
on Feb 26, 2015
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Ah. I've seen it show up in the GUIs for a coworker or two, but I've never actually seen it filled in.
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