[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Document multiple authorship

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Oct 25 2012 - 09:52:59 EST


Put down the way to express multiple authorship in writing for future
reference.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index c379a2a6949f..f61b1d8b6f9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -339,6 +339,16 @@ then you just add a line saying

using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)

+In the case where two or more people work on one patch and contribute to
+its final version, stating multiple authorship should be expressed by
+adding the other co-authors of said patch to the tag chain like this:
+
+ Based-on-work-by: Second Author <second.author@xxxxxxxxxxx>
+ Based-on-work-by: Third Author <third.author@xxxxxxxxxxx>
+
+Alternatively, the second, third, etc. authors can be credited as
+copyright holders in the files being changed.
+
Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for
now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
point out some special detail about the sign-off.
--
1.8.0

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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