Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainers: mention tag -s for signed tags
From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Jul 14 2023 - 14:19:12 EST
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst | 7 ++++---
> 1 file 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
> ::
Applied, thanks.
jon