Re: [Openvpn-devel] The puprose of the Signed-off-by: line

2016-02-29 Thread Samuli Seppänen
The reason of adding the Signed-off-by is to have a better understanding of whom have been involved in particular commits/patches. While the "Author field" in the git log (git log --pretty=fuller) can only have one name, more people can have been involved in the patch. Using the Signed-off-by

Re: [Openvpn-devel] The puprose of the Signed-off-by: line

2016-02-26 Thread David Sommerseth
>> The reason of adding the Signed-off-by is to have a better understanding >> of whom have been involved in particular commits/patches. While the >> "Author field" in the git log (git log --pretty=fuller) can only have >> one name, more people can have been involved in the patch. Using the >> S

Re: [Openvpn-devel] The puprose of the Signed-off-by: line

2016-02-26 Thread Samuli Seppänen
The reason of adding the Signed-off-by is to have a better understanding of whom have been involved in particular commits/patches. While the "Author field" in the git log (git log --pretty=fuller) can only have one name, more people can have been involved in the patch. Using the Signed-off-by

[Openvpn-devel] The puprose of the Signed-off-by: line

2016-02-25 Thread David Sommerseth
On 25/02/16 13:29, Gert Doering wrote: > Please re-send (and it would be nice if you could do "git commit -s" > for the signed-off-by: - David can explain better what the significance > of that is, but "since we all do it", it's convention) The reason of adding the Signed-off-by is to have a bette