From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Voigt Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:09:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20090406180925.GA466@macbook.lan> References: <20090331185018.GD72569@macbook.lan> <20090331200457.GA23879@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090331204338.GA88381@macbook.lan> <20090401102610.GC26181@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090401175153.GA90421@macbook.lan> <7veiw69p26.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <49D9E040.40007@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 06 20:13:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LqtJU-0000Kq-P0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:12:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752049AbZDFSJa (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:09:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751917AbZDFSJa (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:09:30 -0400 Received: from darksea.de ([83.133.111.250]:37643 "HELO darksea.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750903AbZDFSJ3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:09:29 -0400 Received: (qmail 6288 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2009 20:09:13 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Apr 2009 20:09:13 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:36:24PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Andreas Ericsson 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