From 69945602f95710f16ab4a5f8edfee38dc65555fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:55:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Teach SubmittingPatches about git-commit -s As discussed on git mailing list let's teach the reader about the possiblity to have automatically signed off the commit running the git-commit -s command Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 8a3d31631c..646b6e7331 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -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.