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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:41:35 +0200
Soren Hansen <soren at linux2go.dk> wrote:

> I find the rebasing/cherry-picking practice even worse in the Linux
> kernel context due to the patch tagging used there. If I add a
> "Signed-off-by: Soren Hansen" to a patch and someone cherry picks that
> patch or moves it around as part of a rebase, my patch still shows up as
> "Signed-off-by: me" even though I've never signed off on the patch in
> its new context. I remember at one point I had a patch that added some

"Signed-off-by:" is not about the context. For Linux kernel, it simply
says that you release your code under GPL. You can't control how other
people use it. That's the fundamental rule under the majority of OSS
licenses. With any tools, you can't the rule. Your code could cause
problems in a different context (you didn't expect), but it's not the
responsibility of your code.

I vote for git. It's much eaiser to try to get your changes merged
into a project that uses git.