Re: git log -> changelog

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/2/2010 5:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/02/2010 03:00 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Two people worked on a single patch, or someone submitted it, and then
>> one of the people with commit access modified the patch slightly.  The
>> GCS says you should do this, in the ChangeLog:
>>
>> ===========================================
>> 2010-09-02  John Original Submitter<...>
>>              Steve Committer Rewrite<...>    <<<=== can't do this
> 
> Well, if you go by git's Signed-off-by tags as a way of generating those
> lines, it would be possible.

Ah, but then how do you distinguish between a chain of Signed-off-by
labels -- as in the Linux kernel, where various subsystem maintainers
also have to sign off on patches, in the sense of "I certify that this
is OK, and it has proper approvals, and has been reviewed, (FSF: and the
author has a copyright assignment).

vs.

"and I modified the actual contents of the patch a little bit"

--
Chuck