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From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:09:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090406180925.GA466@macbook.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqvdpi5807.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:36:24PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.com> writes:
> 
> > How about:
> > "Some projects (notably the Linux kernel and git itself) put special
> > meaning in a 'Signed-off-by' line while other's dont. Please refer
> > to your project's documentation for appropriate behaviour."
> >
> > Optionally with the following amendment:
> >
> > "In general, you should refrain from signing off on a patch containing
> > material that you're not sure can be legally spread under the project's
> > license."
> 
> To me, this is at least an improvement over refering to
> SubmittingPatches (which is targeted to Git contributors) in the
> documentation (targeted to Git users), yes.

To me too. When writing I was probably too focused on Git.

> Not sure whether these two sentences should come in the documentation
> for the config option or the command-line switch.

I think you should be able to get to this note from all locations where
this option is provided (+ the commit option) so maybe a link ?

cheers Heiko

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-06 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-31 18:50 [PATCH] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 19:47 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-01 17:53   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 20:04 ` Jeff King
2009-03-31 20:43   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-04-01 10:26     ` Jeff King
2009-04-01 17:51       ` [PATCH v2] " Heiko Voigt
2009-04-01 17:55         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-04-06  8:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-06 10:58           ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-06 11:36             ` Matthieu Moy
2009-04-06 18:09               ` Heiko Voigt [this message]
2009-04-07  7:23             ` Jeff King

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