Understand the Git commit sign-off function
In this article, we will explore the Git commit sign-off feature. This feature allows us to add a line containing our full name and email address to our commits.
Signature confirming ownership and permission to submit submission.
Understand the Git commit sign-off function
Like most other features in Git, we can .gitconfigcustomize sign-offs by making a few changes in the git-sign-off.log file. This is possible because the feature relies on the user.name and user.email values in the Git configuration file.
Here's how to configure sign-off. We'll run the following command on bash to configure our details:
$ git config --local --add user.name "John Wachira"
$ git config --local --add user.email "wachirajohnie11@gmail.com"
We added the -s parameter to the git commit command to include a sign-off when committing changes.
We will make a new commit and use the -s switch in our repository to confirm this is the case. We will run:
$ git commit -s -m "Configure"
The above command will add a gpg signature to our commit. Let's run the git log command to check the latest commit in our repository.
This feature is required when adding patches to the Linux kernel. However, most projects do not need it.
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