Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 09:54 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Support for more generic footers was supposed to come when the >> "interpret-trailers" topic started, but the author of the topic >> seems to have lost interest before the mechanism has become ready to >> be integrated in the workflow commands like "am", "commit", "rebase" >> etc., which is unfortunate. > > I think adding at least an option to git send-email > allowing auto-cc's for all > "<foo>-by: [name] <address>" > lines in the commit log would be useful. > > Today, only "Signed-off-by" and "CC" lines are > added to cc's. > > I've always called these lines "<foo>-by:" lines > "signatures", but perhaps there's a better name. I think we casually call them footers (as they are counter-part to "headers"), or trailers.