now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
point out some special detail about the sign-off.
+Any further SoBs (Signed-off-by:'s) following the author's SoB are from
+people handling and transporting the patch, but were not involved in its
+development. SoB chains should reflect the **real** route a patch took
+as it was propagated to the maintainers and ultimately to Linus, with
+the first SoB entry signalling primary authorship of a single author.
+
When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-developed-by:
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have been included in the discussion.
Co-developed-by: states that the patch was co-created by multiple developers;
-it is a used to give attribution to co-authors (in addition to the author
+it is used to give attribution to co-authors (in addition to the author
attributed by the From: tag) when several people work on a single patch. Since
Co-developed-by: denotes authorship, every Co-developed-by: must be immediately
followed by a Signed-off-by: of the associated co-author. Standard sign-off