Stupid git question: adding acked-by

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Sun Dec 9 17:04:59 EST 2007


On 12/08/2007 09:21 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> OK git gurus, this is something I have not figured out: the best way to 
> add acked-by (or additional signed-off-by) lines to git patches.
> 
> What I'm talking about is when I've applied a patch to my repo and 
> published the change on the list and get an "acked-by" back.  By the 
> time I get the ack, the acked patch may be several patches deep.  My 
> current technique is to reset the repo, edit the patch(es) to add the 
> "acked-by" lines, and then re-apply the patches.  PITA and probably the 
> stupidest way.
> 
> Stacked git should work (effectively does the same thing but more 
> gracefully), but I have not gone that route yet.
> 
> There must be a better way, if only I could find the right (of 137) 
> git-* command...

I keep patches in a repo.  I just update the patch header and commit.

-Geoff 




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