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Your commit must contain the Signed-off-by line with your name and email
address as an acknowledgement that you agree to the Developer Certificate of Origin.
Bot generated commits are exempt from this requirement. If a commit has
multiple authors, the Signed-off-by line should be added for each author;
and at least one should match the author information in the commit metadata.
This rule does not apply to dependency updates (e.g. cherry-picks), release
commits, or backport commits.
Fixes: #64799
Situation
The instructions under contributing > Pull requests > Commit message guidelines document section are formulated without reference to the
git commit -soption which provides for assisted addition of the requiredSigned-off-bytrailer:Signed-off-byline with your name and emailaddress as an acknowledgement that you agree to the Developer Certificate of Origin.
Bot generated commits are exempt from this requirement. If a commit has
multiple authors, the
Signed-off-byline should be added for each author;and at least one should match the author information in the commit metadata.
This rule does not apply to dependency updates (e.g. cherry-picks), release
commits, or backport commits.
The examples of