signed-off-by.git
11 years agoremove doubled words, e.g., s/to to/to/, and fix related typos
Jim Meyering [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:39:40 +0000 (17:39 +0200)]
remove doubled words, e.g., s/to to/to/, and fix related typos

I found that some doubled words had snuck back into projects from which
I'd already removed them, so now there's a "syntax-check" makefile rule in
gnulib to help prevent recurrence.

Running the command below spotted a few in git, too:

  git ls-files | xargs perl -0777 -n \
    -e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt])\s+\1\b/gims)' \
    -e '{$n=($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1); ($v=$&)=~s/\n/\\n/g;' \
    -e 'print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n"}'

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[wking@tremily.us: only apply SubmittingPatches portion of the
original patch since I'm pulling out only the D-C-O portion of
SubmittingPatches]
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
11 years agoSubmittingPatches: Document some extra tags used in commit messages
Ramkumar Ramachandra [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:37:43 +0000 (10:07 +0530)]
SubmittingPatches: Document some extra tags used in commit messages

Document the meanings of the tags "Reported-by:", "Acked-by:",
"Reviewed-by:" and "Tested-by:" clearly. Also mention that the user is
free to use any custom tags.

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[wking@tremily.us: removed diff context to merge with Linux kernel
version]
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
11 years agoSubmittingPatches: mention the usage of real name in Signed-off-by: lines
Miklos Vajna [Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:52:17 +0000 (01:52 +0100)]
SubmittingPatches: mention the usage of real name in Signed-off-by: lines

Especially with something that is supposed to hopefully have some legal
value down the line if somebody starts making noises, it really would be
nice to have a real person to associate things with. Suggest this in the
SubmittingPatches document.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
11 years agoDocumentation/SubmittingPatches: What's Acked-by and Tested-by?
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 01:02:28 +0000 (17:02 -0800)]
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: What's Acked-by and Tested-by?

We used to talk about "internal company procedures", but this
document is about submitting patches to the git mailing list.

More useful information is when to say Acked-by: and Tested-by:.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[wking@tremily.us: removed diff context to merge with Linux kernel
version]
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
11 years agoTeach SubmittingPatches about git-commit -s
Paolo Ciarrocchi [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:55:20 +0000 (19:55 +0100)]
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>
11 years agoDocumentation: fix spelling error in SubmittingPatches
Zac Storer [Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:34:45 +0000 (12:34 -0700)]
Documentation: fix spelling error in SubmittingPatches

Fixed a spelling error.

Signed-off-by: Zac Storer <zac.3.14159@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodoc: add suggestions about good practises for maintainers
Willy Tarreau [Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:20:28 +0000 (00:20 +0200)]
doc: add suggestions about good practises for maintainers

Suggest how to deal with patch modifications caused by
merging or back-porting when you're a maintainer.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[wking@tremily.us: removed diff context since I'm pulling out only the
D-C-O portion of SubmittingPatches]
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
11 years agoWe can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel
Greg KH [Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:35:52 +0000 (20:35 -0700)]
We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel

The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
11 years agoDCO: use IANA-reserved second level domain name
Alexey Dobriyan [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:34 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
DCO: use IANA-reserved second level domain name

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
11 years agoUpdate DCO ("signoff") rules to 1.1
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:51:55 +0000 (17:51 -0700)]
Update DCO ("signoff") rules to 1.1

This adds a clause that notes explicitly that the person doing the
sign-off knows that the project (and his sign-off) is public and will
possibly get archived and re-distributed.

11 years agoStart documenting the sign-off procedure in SubmittingPatches
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:13:52 +0000 (22:13 -0700)]
Start documenting the sign-off procedure in SubmittingPatches

We already have over 200 sign-off lines in the kernel, so
let's document the thing, even if discussion may still be
on-going.

[wking@tremily.us: removed diff context since I'm pulling out only the
D-C-O portion of SubmittingPatches]
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>