Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Many types of signatures are used by various projects. > > The most common type is formatted: > "[some_signature_type]-by: First Last <email@xxxxxxxxxx>" > e.g: > "Reported-by: First Last <email@xxxxxxxxxx>" (no quotes are used) This is just a phrasing issue, but I am a bit reluctant about the name "signature". "Acked-by:", "Tested-by:" and "Reviewed-by:" are originally written in the message sent to the author by the person who is giving an Ack, a successful test report, and a review comment, and the author (at least in spirit) copies & pastes them to the final text used in the commit log message, so it would not be incorrect to call them "signatures". But other "Random-by:" would not fall into that pattern. "Reported-by:" certainly does not. It is almost always added by the author of the patch that is different from the reporter, and the reporter wouldn't have written "Reported-by: me" in the original bug report that triggered the discussion and resulted in the commit to fix the bug. Such a line is certainly not a signature of/by the reporter. Same can be said for "Helped-by:" for the author to share credits. Also I've seen these "Random-by:", especially the ones that the author adds on his own initiative like "Reported-by:", followed by just a name but not an addresses [*1*]. Does your change do the right thing on such an address-less entry? The answer to this question must start with the definition of "the right thing to do is X", of course. > diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > index 327233c..17ea825 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > @@ -246,8 +246,9 @@ Automating > patch body (commit message) except for self (use 'self' for that). > - 'sob' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines except > for self (use 'self' for that). > +- 'signatures' will avoid including anyone mentioned in any "<foo>-by:" lines. > - 'cccmd' will avoid running the --cc-cmd. > -- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc' > +- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc + signatures' The quotes do not match quite well. [Footnote] *1* This seems to be done deliberately so; I understand that this is to avoid running afoul of EU privacy legislation or something. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html