[pacman-dev] [PATCH] fix for incorrect checking of return code, which causes syntax errors

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun May 16 07:16:29 EDT 2010


On 16/05/10 21:07, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:13:46 +1000
> Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>
>> You should commit patches with "-s" so that you get the signoff line.
>
> aye! but i wonder what the relevancy of the signoff is. does it just
> mean "i tested it and approve this change" ? that sort of is already
> implicit since i submitted the patch, so the signoff just makes it
> explicit? this would mean i have to commit -s in nearly all git
> commits i do in my all projects.

Ask Dan...   I assume he wrote the patch submitting guilelines:
http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/submitting-patches.html

Allan



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