From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20090331200457.GA23879@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20090331185018.GD72569@macbook.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Heiko Voigt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 31 22:07:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LokEM-0000bM-EP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:06:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753354AbZCaUFL (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:05:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752548AbZCaUFL (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:05:11 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:45501 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752315AbZCaUFK (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:05:10 -0400 Received: (qmail 12764 invoked by uid 107); 31 Mar 2009 20:05:25 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:05:25 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090331185018.GD72569@macbook.lan> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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