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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-02-02 13:36:54 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-02-02 13:36:55 -0800
commitd3a0172a824657640b1ebcb49f18d19b69095423 (patch)
treeb0559ce934f0d40da835cdfe0b51e496d80da3f6
parentMerge branch 'js/status-pre-rebase-i' (diff)
parentdoc: clarify distinction between sign-off and pgp-signing (diff)
downloadtgif-d3a0172a824657640b1ebcb49f18d19b69095423.tar.xz
Merge branch 'cw/doc-sign-off'
Doc update. * cw/doc-sign-off: doc: clarify distinction between sign-off and pgp-signing
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@@ -216,12 +216,11 @@ that it will be postponed.
Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK.
-Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now. Most likely, your
-maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP
-key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not
-judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a
-far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known,
-respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
+Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other people on the
+list would not have your PGP key and would not bother obtaining it anyway.
+Your patch is not judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin
+has a far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known, respected
+origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed
patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message
@@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ patch.
*2* The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org
-(5) Sign your work
+(5) Certify your work by adding your "Signed-off-by: " line
To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
"sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches