Tobias Toedter wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > 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? >From Documentation/SubmittingPatches: (6) Sign your work [...] The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as a open-source patch. "Acked-by:" is used to notify that patch was accepted by somebody, which usually is maintainer of part affected by patch. I have seen exactly on "Cheered-on-by:", and there are probably some "Noticed-by:" there. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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