[PATCH v3] Documentation: include sign off for reverts

2020-11-10 Thread Aditya Srivastava
Currently, we do not have any documentation on commit reverts regarding the requirement of Signed-off-by tag for it. This may be misleading to the users. Evaluating MISSING_SIGN_OFF checkpatch warnings on v4.13..v5.8 showed that 4 out of 11 cases missing a sign-off are revert commits. Add documen

Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: include sign off for reverts

2020-11-13 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:17:49 +0530 Aditya Srivastava wrote: > Currently, we do not have any documentation on commit reverts regarding > the requirement of Signed-off-by tag for it. This may be misleading to > the users. > > Evaluating MISSING_SIGN_OFF checkpatch warnings on v4.13..v5.8 showed >