X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FSubmittingPatches;h=646b6e73318e04cfff7b20abd5d06be424bce503;hb=c6d499a82fbb02e2a03fe3d858ff144fa570fb34;hp=a5b3ebdf7236755570a251dc919709ff9d18b358;hpb=40eaac5abd66b8cafbd519726f59cf30815c10a4;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index a5b3ebdf7..646b6e733 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ enhancements to them, do not forget to "cc: " the person who primarily worked on that hierarchy in contrib/. -(6) Sign your work +(4) Sign your work To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the "sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches @@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ then you just add a line saying Signed-off-by: Random J Developer +This line can be automatically added by git if you run the git-commit +command with the -s option. + Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just point out some special detail about the sign-off.