To create commits on behalf of an organization:
- You must be a member of the organization indicated in the trailer
- You must sign the commit
- Your commit email and the organization email must be in a domain verified by the organization
- Your commit message must end with the commit trailer
on-behalf-of: @org <name@organization.com>orgis the organization's loginname@organization.comis in the organization's domain
Organizations can use the name@organization.com email as a public point of contact for open source efforts.
Creating commits with an on-behalf-of badge on the command line
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Type your commit message and a short, meaningful description of your changes. After your commit description, instead of a closing quotation, add two empty lines.
$ git commit -m "Refactor usability tests. > >Tip
If you're using a text editor on the command line to type your commit message, ensure there are two newlines between the end of your commit description and the
on-behalf-of:commit trailer. -
On the next line of the commit message, type
on-behalf-of: @org <name@organization.com>, then a closing quotation mark.$ git commit -m "Refactor usability tests. > > on-behalf-of: @ORG NAME@ORGANIZATION.COM"
The new commit, message, and badge will appear on GitHub the next time you push. For more information, see "Pushing commits to a remote repository."
Creating commits with an on-behalf-of badge on GitHub
After you've made changes in a file using the web editor on GitHub, you can create a commit on behalf of your organization by adding an on-behalf-of: trailer to the commit's message.
- Click Commit changes...
- In the "Commit message" field, type a short, meaningful commit message that describes the changes you made.
- In the text box below your commit message, add
on-behalf-of: @org <name@organization.com>. - Click Commit changes or Propose changes.
The new commit, message, and badge will appear on GitHub.