Eric Christopher echristo@gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 23:35:00 GMT 2020

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Ah yes that's a very good point.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 2:55 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 01:58:20PM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote:
> > I've gone ahead and committed this for Jordan.
>
> OK, but I'll note that when not using "git am" to commit other
> people's patches you should take steps to properly attribute
> authorship.
>   git commit --amend --author="Joe Bloe <joe@somewhere.net>"
>
> As it is, "git blame" shows
> 741cb83912f (Eric Christopher  2020-02-19 13:55:25 -0800
> for objdump.c lines changed by Jordan's patch.
>
> None of this matters very much at the moment, but if we are to move
> away from ChangeLogs then we will need to learn better habits.
>
> --
> Alan Modra
> Australia Development Lab, IBM
>

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