From: Stephan Beyer Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:15:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] This patch is to allow 12 different OS's to compile and run git. Message-ID: <20080606201551.GB31040@leksak.fem-net> In-Reply-To: Hi, > Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 It's not necessary, or even unwanted, to copy&paste this into the commit message. The Signed-off-by: line > Signed-off-by: Boyd Lynn Gerber is enough. So just use the Signed-off-by line and not the whole DCO. As Documentation/SubmittingPatches says: ---- The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch[...]. [...] if you can certify the below: Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 [...] then you just add a line saying Signed-off-by: Random J Developer ---- Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Beyer , PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F