Hey Alfred, On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Alfred, > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thank you Pranit. I thought that "signed off by" is used once someone >> approved my patch as opposed to when it's in "proposal" stage. This was my >> first email with a patch for this issue, who should/could I have used for >> "signoff"? > > Signoff is used to indicate that you are OKAY with releasing your > patch according to git's license. For more details see the > Documentation/SubmittingPatches[1]. To summarize you will have to add > this in the end : > > Signed-off-by: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Though I will still recommend you to go through [1] properly. Oops I forgot to put the link. [1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#L239-L307 Regards, Pranit Bauva -- 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