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doc: clarify distinction between sign-off and pgp-signing
The documentation for submission discourages pgp-signing, but demands a proper sign-off by contributors. However, when skimming the headings, the wording of the section for sign-off could mistakenly be understood as concerning pgp-signing. Thus, new contributors could oversee the necessary sign-off. This commit improves the wording such that the section about sign-off cannot be misunderstood as pgp-signing. In addition, the paragraph about pgp-signing is changed such that it avoids the impression that pgp-signing could be relevant at later stages of the submission. Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com> Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -216,12 +216,11 @@ that it will be postponed.
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Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
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you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK.
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Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now. Most likely, your
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maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP
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key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not
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judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a
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far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known,
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respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
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Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other people on the
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list would not have your PGP key and would not bother obtaining it anyway.
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Your patch is not judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin
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has a far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known, respected
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origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
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If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed
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patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message
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*2* The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org
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(5) Sign your work
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(5) Certify your work by adding your "Signed-off-by: " line
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To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
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"sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches
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