3 messages, 3 authors, 2021-11-23 · open the first message on its own page
From: Marcos Alano <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-23 13:04:32
Hello, I was trying to generate a patch to send to a project (Linux specifically) but when I generate the patch using "format-patch" I saw there was no "Signed-Off" line, but my commit is signed using SSH. My git version is the latest, 2.34. Thank you.
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-23 16:03:30
On Tue, Nov 23 2021, Marcos Alano wrote:
Hello, I was trying to generate a patch to send to a project (Linux specifically) but when I generate the patch using "format-patch" I saw there was no "Signed-Off" line, but my commit is signed using SSH. My git version is the latest, 2.34.
The Signed-off-by in commit messages doesn't have anything to do with SSH, GPG etc. signing, it's just a way of signaling that you're the author of the change, and/or can certify it as being includable in the project for authorship & copyright reasons. It's mostly used in linux.git and git.git, see a "git grep Signed-off-by" in those for more details.
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-23 16:14:32
Hi Marcos, On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, Marcos Alano wrote:
I was trying to generate a patch to send to a project (Linux specifically) but when I generate the patch using "format-patch" I saw there was no "Signed-Off" line, but my commit is signed using SSH. My git version is the latest, 2.34.
A "Sign-off" is a convention for the commit message, but _signing a commit_ is a cryptographic signature. They are two different things. You can add the "Signed-off-by:" trailers via `git format-patch`'s `--signoff` option: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#Documentation/git-format-patch.txt---signoff Ciao, Johannes