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+.. _configuregit:
+
+Configure Git
+=============
+
+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
+::
+
+ git config user.signingkey "keyname"
+
+Alternatively, edit your ``.git/config`` or ``~/.gitconfig`` file by hand:
+::
+
+ [user]
+ name = Jane Developer
+ email = jd@domain.org
+ signingkey = jd@domain.org
+
+You may need to tell ``git`` to use ``gpg2``
+::
+
+ [gpg]
+ program = /path/to/gpg2
+
+You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell rc file)
+::
+
+ export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
+
+
+Creating commit links to lore.kernel.org
+----------------------------------------
+
+The web site http://lore.kernel.org is meant as a grand archive of all mail
+list traffic concerning or influencing the kernel development. Storing archives
+of patches here is a recommended practice, and when a maintainer applies a
+patch to a subsystem tree, it is a good idea to provide a Link: tag with a
+reference back to the lore archive so that people that browse the commit
+history can find related discussions and rationale behind a certain change.
+The link tag will look like this:
+
+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/<message-id>
+
+This can be configured to happen automatically any time you issue ``git am``
+by adding the following hook into your git:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ $ git config am.messageid true
+ $ cat >.git/hooks/applypatch-msg <<'EOF'
+ #!/bin/sh
+ . git-sh-setup
+ perl -pi -e 's|^Message-Id:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1"
+ test -x "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" &&
+ exec "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" ${1+"$@"}
+ :
+ EOF
+ $ chmod a+x .git/hooks/applypatch-msg