Teach SubmittingPatches about git-commit -s

As discussed on git mailing list let's teach the reader about
the possiblity to have automatically signed off the commit running
the git-commit -s command

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[wking@tremily.us: removed diff context to merge with Linux kernel
version]
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index a29f073974eaeb153ccd7796727cf724aa9e9ed2..4be4625921167d2265a3517bffc352da5e010755 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ then you just add a line saying
        Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
 
 using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
+This line can be automatically added by git if you run the git-commit
+command with the -s option.
 
 Some people also put extra tags at the end.  They'll just be ignored for
 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just