Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the ftrace tree

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:42:49 +1100
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Steven,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:56:42 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Bah, not sure how this happened. I thought I pulled these patches directly
> > from Masami. Does a rebase change the committer tags? As I probably rebased
> > them on top of my branch.  
> 
> From "git help rebase"
> 
>        --signoff
>            Add a Signed-off-by trailer to all the rebased commits. Note that
>            if --interactive is given then only commits marked to be picked,
>            edited or reworded will have the trailer added.
> 
> So this is not done by default.  Yet another reason to avoid rebasing
> others work unless absolutely necessary.
> 

Yeah, this is temporary, as Masami is still setting up his test
environment, he just asked me to pull his changes on top of mine so that I
can run them.

Now I know what not to do ;-)

-- Steve