From: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Do not PGP sign your patch, at least *for now*. (...)
And maybe these 2 small words are the bug in the documentation?
Shall we drop the "at least for now" part, like so:
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From 2c4fe0e67451892186ff6257b20c53e088c9ec67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:19:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: drop temporal reference for PGP
signing
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 08352deaae..28da4ad2d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -216,12 +216,12 @@ that it will be postponed.
Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK.
-Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now. Most likely, your
-maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP
-key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not
-judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a
-far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known,
-respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
+Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other
+people on the list would not have your PGP key and would not bother
+obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not judged by who you are; a good
+patch from an unknown origin has a far better chance of being accepted
+than a patch from a known, respected origin that is done poorly or
+does incorrect things.
Wouldn't this also benefit from a forward reference to the section 5 on the
DOC signining? This would avoid Cornelius's case where he felt that section
5 no longer applied.
If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed
patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message
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2.11.0.495.g04f60290a0.dirty
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Philip