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--- a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
+++ b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
@@ -1,35 +1,31 @@
-.. _configuregit:
-
-Configure Git
-=============
+Configuring Git
+===============
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
-::
+Tagged branches used in pull requests (see
+Documentation/maintainer/pull-requests.rst) should be signed with the
+developers public GPG key. Signed 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"
-Alternatively, edit your ``.git/config`` or ``~/.gitconfig`` file by hand:
-::
+Alternatively, edit your ``.git/config`` or ``~/.gitconfig`` file by hand::
[user]
name = Jane Developer
email = jd@domain.org
signingkey = jd@domain.org
-You may need to tell ``git`` to use ``gpg2``
-::
+You may need to tell ``git`` to use ``gpg2``::
[gpg]
program = /path/to/gpg2
-You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell rc file)
-::
+You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell
+rc file)::
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
@@ -37,26 +33,24 @@ You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell rc fil
Creating commit links to lore.kernel.org
----------------------------------------
-The web site http://lore.kernel.org is meant as a grand archive of all mail
+The web site https://lore.kernel.org is meant as a grand archive of all mail
list traffic concerning or influencing the kernel development. Storing archives
of patches here is a recommended practice, and when a maintainer applies a
patch to a subsystem tree, it is a good idea to provide a Link: tag with a
reference back to the lore archive so that people that browse the commit
history can find related discussions and rationale behind a certain change.
-The link tag will look like this:
+The link tag will look like this::
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/<message-id>
This can be configured to happen automatically any time you issue ``git am``
-by adding the following hook into your git:
-
-.. code-block:: none
+by adding the following hook into your git::
$ git config am.messageid true
$ cat >.git/hooks/applypatch-msg <<'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
. git-sh-setup
- perl -pi -e 's|^Message-Id:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1"
+ perl -pi -e 's|^Message-I[dD]:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1"
test -x "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" &&
exec "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" ${1+"$@"}
: