docs/devel/submitting-a-pull-request.rst

1 .. _submitting-a-pull-request:
8 :ref:`submitting-a-patch`
18 threaded as follow-ups to the pull request itself. The simplest way to
19 do this is to use ``git format-patch --cover-letter`` to create the
21 details that ``git request-pull`` outputs.
25 ``--subject-prefix=PULL`` in your ``git format-patch`` command). This
29 **Each patch must have your own Signed-off-by: line** as well as that of
34 **Don't forget to add Reviewed-by: and Acked-by: lines**. When other
48 just fix in passing, but if in doubt err on the side of not.)
57 the pullreq email should quote a tag which is a GPG-signed tag (as
58 created with 'gpg tag -s ...'). See :ref:`maintainer_keys` for
61 **Pull requests not for master should say "not for master" and have
64 string "not for master" in the cover letter email, and make sure the
67 pull requests that should be applied to master.
69 You might be interested in the `make-pullreq
70 <https://git.linaro.org/people/peter.maydell/misc-scripts.git/tree/make-pullreq>`__