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Owner ruling D218. See docs/SIGNING-POLICY.adoc in hyperpolymath/standards. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WRvDivYwLSeVCJUrfjic3f
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WalkthroughThe contribution guides now document signed-commit requirements, signing methods for different commit authors, and pull request merge rules. ChangesSigned Commit Policy
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Adds repository-wide signed-commit guidance aligned with the estate policy.
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- Documents SSH signing for people and interactive agents.
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| so that GitHub signs each commit. | ||
| * Merge PRs with **squash**. The ruleset checks every commit on the PR branch, | ||
| not just the result, so one unsigned commit blocks the merge. Re-create such a | ||
| branch with signed commits (`git cherry-pick -S`) and open a new PR. |
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Keep the existing pull request after rewriting and signing commits.
Both guides tell contributors to open a new PR. The linked signing policy and GitHub guidance direct them to rewrite and sign commits on the PR’s head branch; pushing the replacements updates the existing PR. Replace this instruction with guidance to update the existing PR branch, using --force-with-lease if rewriting history requires it. (github.com)
CONTRIBUTING.adoc#L74-L74: Tell contributors to update the existing PR after pushing signed replacement commits..github/CONTRIBUTING.md#L137-L137: Tell contributors to update the existing PR after pushing signed replacement commits.
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Adds a Signed commits section to this repo's CONTRIBUTING, per owner ruling D218. The estate policy is
docs/SIGNING-POLICY.adocin hyperpolymath/standards.This repo's default branch is covered by the zero-bypass
Require-Signed-Commitsruleset, and rebase-merge is off. The section tells contributors what that requires:If the file already had its own signing section, that section is replaced in place instead of adding a second one. Lines elsewhere that told people to sign with GPG are changed to match the policy (SSH for people).
This is a docs-only change. The commit was created through
createCommitOnBranch, so GitHub signs it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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