From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:46:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Adding Reviewed-by/Tested-by tags to other peoples commits
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:

> 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