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authorLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-03-27 21:19:38 -0400
committerLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-03-27 21:19:38 -0400
commitc17383f400d3b942c22ec46b556cad8ca3a2fce1 (patch)
treef430fdc7b6e41a652b4a0dbdd08050f586e4b24d /HACKING
parentb1a8fd2d2cf6bf1b20ba8d26ca6f9a7caef60cbc (diff)
parent7aeb4ffa5828206f89ec62226863c27f7c1c028d (diff)
downloadguix-c17383f400d3b942c22ec46b556cad8ca3a2fce1.tar.gz
Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
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@@ -46,9 +46,14 @@ configure Git to automatically sign commits, run:
   git config commit.gpgsign true
   git config user.signingkey CABBA6EA1DC0FF33
 
-You can prevent yourself from accidentally pushing unsigned commits to Savannah
-by using the pre-push Git hook called 'pre-push'. It's located at
-'etc/git/pre-push'.
+You can prevent yourself from accidentally pushing unsigned commits to
+Savannah by using the pre-push Git hook called located at ‘etc/git/pre-push’:
+
+  cp etc/git/pre-push .git/hooks/pre-push
+
+When pushing a commit on behalf of somebody else, please add a Signed-off-by
+line at the end of the commit log message (e.g. with ‘git am --signoff’).
+This improves tracking of who did what.
 
 For anything else, please post to guix-patches@gnu.org and leave time for a
 review, without committing anything.  If you didn’t receive any reply