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Re: Adding Reviewed-by/Tested-by tags to other peoples commits

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 11, 2008, 07:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20081011074604.GA23883@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<b2cdc9f30810102337q13432bepa957acaace9ddc5d@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:37:04AM +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
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> I've just tested/reviewed a patch of someone elses and I want to
> forward it on the appropriate mailing list. I gather for Linux you
> just add the appropriate tags to the commit. Does git offer a shortcut
> for doing this or do you have to do a reset HEAD^ and re-commit with a
> copy&pasted and modified commit message?

Try "git commit --amend" to edit the commit message. There's no automatic way of adding acked-by or tested-by tags with git; most people who do those things often would probably configure their editor to make it easier.

-Peff
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  2. Jeff KingOct 11, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinOct 11, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2008
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  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 11, 2008
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