contributing:
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner
Suggested-by: Gregory Rose
@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ Examples of common tags follow.
If the author and submitter are different, each must sign off. If the patch
has more than one author, all must sign off.
+ Signed-off-by tags should be the last tags in the commit message. If the
+ author (or authors) and submitter are different, the author tags should come
+ first. More generally, occasionally a patch might pass through a chain of
+ submitters, and in such a case the sign-offs should be arranged in
+ chronological order.
+
::
Signed-off-by: Author Name <author.name@email.address...>
