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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-02-02 13:36:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-02-02 13:36:55 -0800 |
| commit | d3a0172a824657640b1ebcb49f18d19b69095423 (patch) | |
| tree | b0559ce934f0d40da835cdfe0b51e496d80da3f6 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'js/status-pre-rebase-i' (diff) | |
| parent | doc: clarify distinction between sign-off and pgp-signing (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d3a0172a824657640b1ebcb49f18d19b69095423.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'cw/doc-sign-off'
Doc update.
* cw/doc-sign-off:
doc: clarify distinction between sign-off and pgp-signing
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 08352deaae..3faf7eb884 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -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 |