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From: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen@googlemail.com,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de,
	John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches: drop temporal reference for PGP signing
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:30:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <baff65ba-1e98-d5a7-5b5a-a50a7fc723ee@tngtech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kaRdtKD7DNJRWXsyg07GbTM4OsKUmHHcFczEMJA1YK2KA@mail.gmail.com>


> 
> Yeah I agree. My patch was not the best shot by far.
> 

How about something along these lines? Does the forward reference
break the main line of thought too severly?

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 08352de..c2b0cbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -216,12 +216,12 @@ that it will be postponed.
 Exception:  If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
 you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK.
 
-Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now.  Most likely, your
-maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP
-key and would not bother obtaining it anyway.  Your patch is not
-judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a
-far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known,
-respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
+Do not PGP sign your patch, but do sign-off your work as explained in (5).
+Most likely, your maintainer or other people on the list would not have your
+PGP key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not judged by
+who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a far better chance of
+being accepted than a patch from a known, respected origin that is done poorly
+or does incorrect things.
 
 If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed
 patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ patch.
      *2* The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org
 
 
-(5) Sign your work
+(5) Certify your work by signing off
 
 To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
 "sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-26 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-22 22:57 [PATCH 0/7] completion bash: add more options and commands bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 1/7] completion: teach options to submodule subcommands bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 2/7] completion: add subcommand completion for rerere bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-02-02  0:57   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02  9:16     ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 3/7] completion: improve bash completion for git-add bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 4/7] completion: teach ls-remote to complete options bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-02-02  1:40   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02  9:40     ` Cornelius Weig
2017-02-02 16:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 5/7] completion: teach replace " bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 6/7] completion: teach remote subcommands option completion bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-02-02  1:37   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02 10:29     ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-22 22:57 ` [PATCH 7/7] completion: recognize more long-options bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen
2017-01-24  7:15   ` Johannes Sixt
2017-01-24  8:14     ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-24 23:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-24 23:33         ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-24 23:43           ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-25  0:11             ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-25  0:21               ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-25  0:43                 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-25  0:52                   ` Re: Stefan Beller
2017-01-25  0:54                 ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2017-01-25  1:32                   ` Re: Eric Wong
2017-01-25  6:54                 ` SubmittingPatches: drop temporal reference for PGP signing Philip Oakley
2017-01-25 22:38                   ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-26 13:30                     ` Cornelius Weig [this message]
2017-01-26 17:57                       ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-26 18:18                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-26 20:58                         ` Philip Oakley
2017-01-27 10:49                           ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-27 17:43                             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-27 21:17     ` [PATCH v2 0/7] completion: recognize more long-options cornelius.weig
2017-01-27 21:17       ` [PATCH v2 7/7] " cornelius.weig
2017-01-31 22:17         ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-01 16:49           ` Cornelius Weig
2017-02-02  2:00             ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-02-02 10:40               ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-31 22:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] completion: improve bash completion for git-add SZEDER Gábor

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