[PATCH libgpg-error] doc: clarify patch submission workflow

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Feb 1 18:03:12 CET 2018


On Thu 2018-02-01 16:20:25 +0000, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/01/2018 01:24 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
>> +  - send your patches to that list, preferably PGP/MIME signed.
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> As far as I know, git send-email does not allow to do that. (Or if it 
> does, I never found how to do it--when I looked for that feature, I 
> found nothing else than an a old bug report complaining precisely that 
> it was not supported [1].)
>
> It seems strange to ask for "preferably PGP/MIME signed" patches and to 
> suggest a workflow which does not support it.

maybe if we state a preference it can be used to encourage bugfixes
elsewhere in the stack?  it's certainly possible to prefer something
that you can't currently have easily.

     --dkg



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