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From: Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Question about commit message conventions
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:49:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610241549.48238.t.toedter@gmx.net> (raw)

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Hi,

although I've read the documentation of git very carefully, I could not find 
anything related to certain commit message conventions. It would be great 
if someone here could explain a few things, maybe this could be added to 
the wiki afterwards (<http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/CommitMessageConventions>).

First of all, what's the intended use of the "Signed-off-by:" lines? Does it 
make sense to add my name there, even when I'm listed as the author or 
committer of a commit? I thought that they are intended mostly to note the 
approval of other developers.

On the other hand, concerning the approval of other developers, what's the 
difference between "Signed-off-by:" and "Acked-by:"? Are there any 
more "*-by:" fields that are in use?

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
Tobias Toedter   | "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people
Hamburg, Germany | like me as members." -- Groucho Marx

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             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-24 13:49 Tobias Toedter [this message]
2006-10-24 14:08 ` Question about commit message conventions Jakub Narebski
2006-10-24 14:14   ` Tobias Toedter
2006-10-24 14:08 ` Erik Mouw
2006-10-25 15:23   ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-10-25 18:48     ` Junio C Hamano

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