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Documentation: include sign off for reverts

Currently, we do not have any documentation on commit reverts regarding
the requirement of Signed-off-by tag for it. This may be misleading to
the users.

Evaluating MISSING_SIGN_OFF checkpatch warnings on v4.13..v5.8 showed
that 4 out of 11 cases missing a sign-off are revert commits.

Add documentation regarding the same to document the community
consensus and let readers know.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110174749.32068-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Aditya Srivastava and committed by
Jonathan Corbet 7d717887 f8394f23

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Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
··· 404 404 405 405 using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.) 406 406 This will be done for you automatically if you use ``git commit -s``. 407 + Reverts should also include "Signed-off-by". ``git revert -s`` does that 408 + for you. 407 409 408 410 Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for 409 411 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just