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spockz on Dec 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many...

At least these days co-authorship can be recorded in the commits.

ilammy on Dec 30, 2019 | [–]

That’s just conflating GitHub support of these tags with git. Similar "Signed-off-by" tags are in use by Linux kernel pretty much since forever.

TeMPOraL on Dec 30, 2019 | [–]

But then cherrypicking doesn;t preserve commit metadata, does it?

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