Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the kvm tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:01:46 +1000

Hi Radim,

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:36:24 +0200 Radim Krčmář <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Should all rebases be done with the --signoff option?

More or less.  rebase with the --signoff option will add a duplicate
Signed-off-by unless the already existing one is last in the current
commit.

Linus has said that doing a rebase is no different to applying a patch,
so a new committer needs to add a Signed-off-by tag.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell