6 This chapter describes maintainer level git configuration.
8 Tagged branches used in :ref:`Documentation/maintainer/pull-requests.rst
9 <pullrequests>` should be signed with the developers public GPG key. Signed
10 tags can be created by passing the ``-u`` flag to ``git tag``. However,
11 since you would *usually* use the same key for the same project, you can
15 git config user.signingkey "keyname"
17 Alternatively, edit your ``.git/config`` or ``~/.gitconfig`` file by hand:
23 signingkey = jd@domain.org
25 You may need to tell ``git`` to use ``gpg2``
29 program = /path/to/gpg2
31 You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell rc file)
37 Creating commit links to lore.kernel.org
38 ----------------------------------------
40 The web site http://lore.kernel.org is meant as a grand archive of all mail
41 list traffic concerning or influencing the kernel development. Storing archives
42 of patches here is a recommended practice, and when a maintainer applies a
43 patch to a subsystem tree, it is a good idea to provide a Link: tag with a
44 reference back to the lore archive so that people that browse the commit
45 history can find related discussions and rationale behind a certain change.
46 The link tag will look like this:
48 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/<message-id>
50 This can be configured to happen automatically any time you issue ``git am``
51 by adding the following hook into your git:
55 $ git config am.messageid true
56 $ cat >.git/hooks/applypatch-msg <<'EOF'
59 perl -pi -e 's|^Message-Id:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1"
60 test -x "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" &&
61 exec "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" ${1+"$@"}
64 $ chmod a+x .git/hooks/applypatch-msg