- the first line of the commit message should be a short
description and should skip the full stop
- if you want your work included in git.git, add a
- "Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.com>" line to the
+ "Signed-off-by: Your Name <you@example.com>" line to the
commit message (or just use the option "-s" when
committing) to confirm that you agree to the Developer's
Certificate of Origin
Patch:
- use "git format-patch -M" to create the patch
- - send your patch to <git@vger.kernel.org>. If you use
- git-send-email(1), please test it first by sending
- email to yourself.
- do not PGP sign your patch
- do not attach your patch, but read in the mail
body, unless you cannot teach your mailer to
corrupt whitespaces.
- provide additional information (which is unsuitable for
the commit message) between the "---" and the diffstat
- - send the patch to the list _and_ the maintainer
- if you change, add, or remove a command line option or
make some other user interface change, the associated
documentation should be updated as well.
- if your name is not writable in ASCII, make sure that
you send off a message in the correct encoding.
+ - send the patch to the list (git@vger.kernel.org) and the
+ maintainer (gitster@pobox.com). If you use
+ git-send-email(1), please test it first by sending
+ email to yourself.
Long version: