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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-07-14 02:06:06 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2023-07-14 21:18:49 +0300 |
| commit | 803fda170784de8b5da7a82d42ea3eea672a56bc (patch) | |
| tree | 159875e36cebd06c765cd7098a40a5811b04b394 /Documentation/maintainer | |
| parent | 77f969a717b953296c036004b1a96f9d1087cef6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-803fda170784de8b5da7a82d42ea3eea672a56bc.tar.xz | |
docs: maintainers: mention tag -s for signed tags
The documentation talks about -u and how to configure the default
key. It does not mention that once the default key is set one
should use the -s flag. Which is likely what most people end up
using.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20230713230606.1505458-1-kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/maintainer')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst index ec0ddfb9cdd3..a054de0c50dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst +++ b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst @@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ This chapter describes maintainer level git configuration. Tagged branches used in :ref:`Documentation/maintainer/pull-requests.rst <pullrequests>` should be signed with the developers public GPG key. Signed -tags can be created by passing the ``-u`` flag to ``git tag``. However, -since you would *usually* use the same key for the same project, you can -set it once with +tags can be created by passing ``-u <key-id>`` to ``git tag``. However, +since you would *usually* use the same key for the project, you can +set it in the configuration and use the ``-s`` flag. To set the default +``key-id`` use :: git config user.signingkey "keyname" |