From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Code "borrowed" without attribution to original authors
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:45:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101007084530.82D8E153A7E@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101007080646.GB28242@pengutronix.de>
Dear Sascha,
In message <20101007080646.GB28242@pengutronix.de> you wrote:
>
> > Do you think such a short hint cannot be done?
>
> We can (and actually I prefered Jean-Christophe had done it) add a
> hint in the commit log saying that the code is derived from U-Boot,
> but I will not dig through the U-Boot commit log to see who actually
> made a commit looking similar to a barebox commit, and I do not expect
> anyone to do so.
It is trivial to find the commits that added the lines you are
copying from - just run "git blame" on that file.
Thanks.
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 13:52 Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-05 16:00 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-10-05 16:20 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-10-05 17:53 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-06 3:03 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-10-06 7:27 ` Sascha Hauer
2010-10-06 13:56 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-07 7:38 ` Uwe Kleine-König
[not found] ` <20101007080810.EFDC4153A7E@gemini.denx.de>
2010-10-07 8:37 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-10-07 8:06 ` Sascha Hauer
2010-10-07 8:45 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2010-10-07 12:45 ` Sascha Hauer
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