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From: | Derek Scherger |
Subject: | Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git |
Date: | Tue, 22 May 2007 20:04:45 -0600 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070520) |
Justin Patrin wrote: > Signer and author are different things. I can sign something but set > you as the author if I wished. This is often used (in OpenEmbedded) to > commit patches for people who don't have push access to a server. It has also been used in the past when history was rebuilt/rewritten because of revision format changes and such. The person rebuilding the history ends up as the signer of every cert but the original author is still maintained. Cheers, Derek
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