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From: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commit
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:49:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FAB54B.2020304@devslashzero.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfxmuec46.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

'--signoff' uses commiter name always to add the signoff line,
make it explicit in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>
---
 Documentation/git-commit.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index eb05b0f..713ab0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ OPTIONS

 -s::
 --signoff::
-	Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
+	Add Signed-off-by line by the commiter at the end of the commit
+	log message.

 -n::
 --no-verify::
-- 
1.5.6.3

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-19  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-18  3:35 [PATCH] Documentation: Better explain git-commit --author implications Abhijit Bhopatkar
2008-10-18  4:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-19  4:19   ` Abhijit Bhopatkar [this message]

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