From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1P3m6W-0005ru-P0 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:45:33 +0000 From: Wolfgang Denk MIME-Version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <20101007080646.GB28242@pengutronix.de> References: <20101005135213.24F871539A0@gemini.denx.de> <20101006072749.GR28242@pengutronix.de> <20101006135644.8D7051539A0@gemini.denx.de> <20101007080646.GB28242@pengutronix.de> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:45:30 +0200 Message-Id: <20101007084530.82D8E153A7E@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Code "borrowed" without attribution to original authors To: Sascha Hauer Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away. - Terry Pratchett, _Sourcery_ _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox