Introduction
This is a guide to help you sign your Git commits in an open source project, in order to verify that the owner of the submitted code is you and only you.
Git enables us to use whatever email and username we want when doing a git commit. This can be easily used for malicious purposes, as anyone can pretend to be another person when commiting a piece of code. So, if we use signed commits we are showing that we are who we say we are, and if we are using GitHub we will see a green Verified tag in every signed commit we push.