From: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: j6t@kdbg.org, bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen@googlemail.com,
git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com,
thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de, john@keeping.me.uk
Subject: Re:
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:43:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec2a198e-edf5-68a1-523c-12a9d1333c58@tngtech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170125002116.22111-1-sbeller@google.com>
On 01/25/2017 01:21 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:
>>
>>> Do not PGP sign your patch, at least *for now*. (...)
>>
>
> And maybe these 2 small words are the bug in the documentation?
> Shall we drop the "at least for now" part, like so:
>
> ---8<---
> From 2c4fe0e67451892186ff6257b20c53e088c9ec67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:19:13 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: drop temporal reference for PGP signing
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> ---
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index 08352deaae..28da4ad2d4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -216,12 +216,12 @@ that it will be postponed.
> Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
> you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK.
>
> -Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now. Most likely, your
> -maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP
> -key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not
> -judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a
> -far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known,
> -respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
> +Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other
> +people on the list would not have your PGP key and would not bother
> +obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not judged by who you are; a good
> +patch from an unknown origin has a far better chance of being accepted
> +than a patch from a known, respected origin that is done poorly or
> +does incorrect things.
>
> If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed
> patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message
>
It definitely is an improvement. Though it would still leave me puzzled
when finding a section about signing just below.
Is changing heading (5) too big a change? Like so:
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 08352de..71898dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ patch.
*2* The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org
-(5) Sign your work
+(5) Certify your work by signing off.
To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
"sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-25 0:43 UTC|newest]
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2017-01-22 22:57 [PATCH 0/7] completion bash: add more options and commands bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 1/7] completion: teach options to submodule subcommands bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 2/7] completion: add subcommand completion for rerere bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-02-02 0:57 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02 9:16 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 3/7] completion: improve bash completion for git-add bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 4/7] completion: teach ls-remote to complete options bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-02-02 1:40 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02 9:40 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-02-02 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 5/7] completion: teach replace " bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 6/7] completion: teach remote subcommands option completion bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-02-02 1:37 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02 10:29 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 7/7] completion: recognize more long-options bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-24 7:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-01-24 8:14 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-24 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-24 23:33 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-24 23:43 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-25 0:11 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-25 0:21 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-25 0:43 ` Cornelius Weig [this message]
2017-01-25 0:52 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-25 0:54 ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2017-01-25 1:32 ` Re: Eric Wong
2017-01-25 6:54 ` SubmittingPatches: drop temporal reference for PGP signing Philip Oakley
2017-01-25 22:38 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-26 13:30 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-26 17:57 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-26 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-26 20:58 ` Philip Oakley
2017-01-27 10:49 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-27 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-27 21:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] completion: recognize more long-options cornelius.weig
2017-01-27 21:17 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] " cornelius.weig
2017-01-31 22:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-01 16:49 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-02-02 2:00 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02 10:40 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-31 22:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] completion: improve bash completion for git-add SZEDER Gábor
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2019-08-20 17:27 ` Yagnatinsky, Mark
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2019-01-24 17:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-08 13:33 Netravnen
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2018-04-27 18:19 ` Elijah Newren
2018-04-30 13:11 ` Ben Peart
2018-04-30 16:12 ` Re: Elijah Newren
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2018-02-27 10:26 ` René Scharfe
2017-11-20 15:10 Viet Nguyen
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2015-08-05 12:47 (unknown) Ivan Chernyavsky
2015-08-15 9:19 ` Duy Nguyen
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2015-04-08 20:44 (unknown), Mamta Upadhyay
2015-04-08 21:58 ` Thomas Braun
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2009-05-07 18:18 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-07 18:48 ` Bevan Watkiss
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2009-05-08 15:51 ` Re: Brandon Casey
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2009-05-08 17:44 ` Re: Linus Torvalds
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2009-03-30 8:46 ` Re: Junio C Hamano
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