After checking to see if the commit message already has the target signed-off-by (for example in --amend commits), this patch generates a signed off by line from the repository owner and adds it to the commit message. Based on Johannes Schindelin's earlier patch to perform the same function. Originally, this was done in the pre-commit hook but Junio pointed out that the commit-msg hook allows the message to be edited. This has the aditional advantage that the commit-msg hook gets passed the name of the message file as a parameter, so it doesn't have to figure out GIT_DIR for itself. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> --- templates/hooks--commit-msg | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/hooks--commit-msg b/templates/hooks--commit-msg index 0b906ca..ce76bdf 100644 --- a/templates/hooks--commit-msg +++ b/templates/hooks--commit-msg @@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ # # To enable this hook, make this file executable. +# Uncomment the below to add a Signed-off-by line to the message. +#SOB=$(git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT | \ +# sed -n "s/^\(.*\) [0-9]\+ [-+][0-9]\+$/Signed-off-by: \1/p") +#grep -qs "^$SOB" "$1" || echo "$SOB" >> "$1" + # This example catches duplicate Signed-off-by lines. test "" = "$(grep '^Signed-off-by: ' "$1" | -- 1.4.4.2.g120e3 - 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