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| author | Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-09-15 16:16:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-09-15 16:16:52 -0400 |
| commit | ab5f4f7224ed7b5ba8dcf1a55205697d08ec7eff (patch) | |
| tree | a56c5aff7eec6afb7c267d0d28b7b602133c4bea | |
| parent | 7deabc08f4d7e8e5a5969504973e23c370a8b9c7 (diff) | |
| download | b4-ab5f4f7224ed7b5ba8dcf1a55205697d08ec7eff.tar.gz | |
docs: add an admonition about existing PGP keys
Add a more visible note that generating a patatt key is not required if
you already have a PGP key configured.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/contributor/send.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/contributor/send.rst b/docs/contributor/send.rst index 00d5ec6..a6a31d5 100644 --- a/docs/contributor/send.rst +++ b/docs/contributor/send.rst @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ this purpose. Creating a new ed25519 key ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.. note:: + + Creating a new ed25519 key is not required if you already have a PGP + key configured with git using the ``user.signingKey`` git-config + setting. + Installing b4 should have already pulled in the patatt patch attestation library. To start using the web submission endpoint, you will need to create a key:: @@ -73,7 +79,7 @@ Configuring the web endpoint ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The web endpoint you will use is going to be dependent on the project. For the Linux kernel and associated tools (like Git, B4, patatt, etc), -the endpoint can be enabled by adding the following to your +the kernel.org endpoint can be enabled by adding the following to your ``~/.gitconfig``:: [b4] |