How to add the Signed-off-by field in the git patch

[Hin-Tak Leung]

You don't need to edit git's config by hand - 'git config --global ... ' can do that for you. read the documentation for git-config, and particularly the --global option.

I also have colorised diff and a few other useful thing configured.


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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 3:21 PM BST Aaryaman Vasishta wrote:

>Hi Dimitry,
>
>Thanks! this will definitely help if this info is added to the wiki too.
>Though it seems to be down right now. There's a discussion going on about
>it on IRC right now.
>
>Cheers,
>Aaryaman
>
>On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> since I personally asked that question and investigated a bit the subject,
>> here is some information that could be probably useful to someone else:
>>
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13457203/how-to-add-the-signed-off-by-field-in-the-git-patch
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1962094/what-is-the-sign-off-feature-in-git-for
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15015894/git-add-signed-off-by-line-using-format-signoff-not-working
>> http://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch (CONFIGURATION section)
>>
>> Personally I've chosen to add
>> [format]
>>         signOff = true
>> to git.config file.
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry.
>>
>>
>>