When sending code, please either send signed-off patches or a pull request with signed-off commits. This means adding a line that says "Signed-off-by: Name <Email>" at the end of each commit. E.g
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
This signifies that you have read/understood/and agreed to the Developer's Certificate of Origin. Essentially indicating that you wrote the code and/or have the right to contribute it to this project.
This is not a CLA.
Also, please write good git commit messages. A good commit message looks like this:
Header line: explaining the commit in one line
Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things in
more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue being
fixed, etc etc.
The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and please do
proper word-wrap and keep columns less than or equal to 72 characters.
That way "git log" will show things nicely even when it's indented.
Reported-by: whoever-reported-it
Signed-off-by: Your Name <you@example.com>
That header line really should be meaningful, and really should be just one line. The header line is what is shown by tools like gitk and shortlog, and should summarize the change in one readable line of text, independently of the longer explanation.
- If emailing patches, it is recommended to use git-send-email(1).
- If emailing a pull request it is recommended to use git-request-pull(1).
- Pull requests can be made via GitHub.
Email should be sent to the project maintainer;
Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>