Especially with something that is supposed to hopefully have some legal value down the line if somebody starts making noises, it really would be nice to have a real person to associate things with. Suggest this in the SubmittingPatches document. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:07:25PM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > An earlier mistake does not justify adding new ones. Besides, I think > ALASCM once revealed his "real name" on the list. Ah, true ($gmane/7946). Then maybe something like this would be good to have? The commit message is mostly copy&paste from Linus' message. Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index f0295c6..530aa25 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ D-C-O. Indeed you are encouraged to do so. Do not forget to place an in-body "From: " line at the beginning to properly attribute the change to its true author (see (2) above). +Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please +don't be childish and don't hide your real name. + Some people also put extra tags at the end. "Acked-by:" says that the patch was reviewed by the person who -- 1.6.1.rc1.35.gae26e.dirty -- 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
