On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:36:24PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Andreas Ericsson <exon@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > How about: > > "Some projects (notably the Linux kernel and git itself) put special > > meaning in a 'Signed-off-by' line while other's dont. Please refer > > to your project's documentation for appropriate behaviour." > > > > Optionally with the following amendment: > > > > "In general, you should refrain from signing off on a patch containing > > material that you're not sure can be legally spread under the project's > > license." > > To me, this is at least an improvement over refering to > SubmittingPatches (which is targeted to Git contributors) in the > documentation (targeted to Git users), yes. To me too. When writing I was probably too focused on Git. > Not sure whether these two sentences should come in the documentation > for the config option or the command-line switch. I think you should be able to get to this note from all locations where this option is provided (+ the commit option) so maybe a link ? cheers Heiko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html