On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:49:44PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote: > although I've read the documentation of git very carefully, I could not find > anything related to certain commit message conventions. It would be great > if someone here could explain a few things, maybe this could be added to > the wiki afterwards (<http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/CommitMessageConventions>). > > First of all, what's the intended use of the "Signed-off-by:" lines? Does it > make sense to add my name there, even when I'm listed as the author or > committer of a commit? I thought that they are intended mostly to note the > approval of other developers. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches. You basically say you have the right to submit the patch. > On the other hand, concerning the approval of other developers, what's the > difference between "Signed-off-by:" and "Acked-by:"? Are there any > more "*-by:" fields that are in use? Acked-by is usually used when someone (not the upstream maintainer the patch was send to) agrees with the patch. I.e.: (s)he says the content of the patch is OK without actually acknowledging something about the right to submit. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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