How to sign off a patch using git

Question

I'm working on a project where some people will sent me git patches and I've to verify those patches and sign off the commits.

We are creating the patches using

git format-patch master --stdout > file.patch

And the file is mailed to us, then we've to verify the patch. For this we creates a new branch and then applies the patch to that using

git apply file.patch

Then verifies the contents of the commit, if it is correct then we need to add sign off to each commit from the patch.

I've seen the git -am command where we can add the signoff at the time of applying the patch.

Is it possible to add a commit after applying a patch?

Thank you

Answer 1

Is it possible to add a commit after applying a patch?

Well, yes, you just make some changes and create a new commit.