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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090331200457.GA23879@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090331185018.GD72569@macbook.lan>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:50:19PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:

> If you regularly create patches which require a Signed-off: line you may
> want to make it your default to add that line. It also helps you not to forget
> to add the -s/--signoff switch.

I personally have no problem with such an option, but it has been argued
against before. E.g.:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/32522
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/51780

There is also some discussion here indicating that it might be accepted:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103939

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-31 18:50 [PATCH] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 19:47 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-01 17:53   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 20:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-03-31 20:43   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-04-01 10:26     ` Jeff King
2009-04-01 17:51       ` [PATCH v2] " Heiko Voigt
2009-04-01 17:55         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-04-06  8:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-06 10:58           ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-06 11:36             ` Matthieu Moy
2009-04-06 18:09               ` Heiko Voigt
2009-04-07  7:23             ` Jeff King

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