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+#### Pi-hole requires a sign-off message in the following format appear on each commit in the pull request:
+
+```
+Signed-off-by: Dan Schaper <dan.schaper@pi-hole.net>
+```
+
+The text can either be manually added to your commit body, or you can add either **-s** or **--signoff** to your usual git commit commands. _If you forget to add the sign-off you can also amend a previous commit with the sign-off by running **git commit --amend -s**. If you've pushed your changes to Github already you'll need to force push your branch after this with **git push -f**_.