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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-10-31 11:02:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-10-31 13:26:59 -0700 |
| commit | fd5261d11ab9a4b1ffeedff017857823c610a417 (patch) | |
| tree | 533bb81094a7d77f898c34ef7e0722f083bd9ea7 /Documentation/internals | |
| parent | f992b0977b0638485eb41733bc77873cb9448114 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-fd5261d11ab9a4b1ffeedff017857823c610a417.tar.gz | |
contributing: Signed-off-by tags should come last.
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Gregory Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst index d7e6e71e9..5a314cc60 100644 --- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst @@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ Examples of common tags follow. If the author and submitter are different, each must sign off. If the patch has more than one author, all must sign off. + Signed-off-by tags should be the last tags in the commit message. If the + author (or authors) and submitter are different, the author tags should come + first. More generally, occasionally a patch might pass through a chain of + submitters, and in such a case the sign-offs should be arranged in + chronological order. + :: Signed-off-by: Author Name <author.name@email.address...> |