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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:23:50 -0400 (EDT) From: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk Subject: [PATCH 2/6] SubmittingPatches: discuss non-ident trailers Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:22:45 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0.22.g9e26862b904 In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk Briefly discuss trailers that do not credit people. This continues the discussion from the previous commit about using trailers for *people*. Using non-ident trailers can be relevant. The contributor should just be encouraged to consider whether it is useful or not. The larger trend here is to discourage using trailers as a dumping ground for any kind of metadata in the spirit of “it doesn’t hurt”. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 0b12badf86d..51c308a89a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -474,7 +474,10 @@ These are the common trailers in use: While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project -highlighted above. +highlighted above. A trailer that credits someone might be more likely +to be accepted since these are the most common ones. But another kind of +trailer might be relevant, for example to link to an issue tracker +belonging to a downstream project that is affected by a bug in Git. Only capitalize the very first letter of the trailer, i.e. favor "Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By". -- 2.54.0.22.g9e26862b904