From ee7c21c7044355fc4c6bbe0906f061f6fbdfb79e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clément Lassieur Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:11:23 +0100 Subject: maint: Mention the Signed-off-by line in 'HACKING'. * HACKING: Mention the Signed-off-by line. --- HACKING | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'HACKING') diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 46a7249616..349015499f 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ 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'. +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 after two weeks, and if you’re confident, it’s OK to commit. -- cgit 1.4.1