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[PATCH] Teach SubmittingPatches about git-commit -s

From
PCPaolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20061121195520.66c22559@paolo-desktop>
[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 <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 8a3d316..20193cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ then you just add a line saying
 
 	Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
 
+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.
-- 
1.4.4.gef06
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  1. Teach SubmittingPatches about git-commit -sPaolo Ciarrocchi, Nov 21, 2006

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