linux-kernel - [PATCH docs] docs: maintainers: mention tag -s for signed tags

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Message-ID: <20230713230606.1505458-1-kuba@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:06:06 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     corbet@....net
Cc:     workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainers: mention tag -s for signed tags

The documentation talks about -u and how to configure the default
key. It does not mention that once the default key is set one
should use the -s flag. Which is likely what most people end up
using.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
index ec0ddfb9cdd3..a054de0c50dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
+++ b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ 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
+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"
-- 
2.41.0