Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> git-am has options to enable --message-id and --3way by default, >> but no option to enable --signoff by default. Add a "am.signoff" >> config option. > > I'm not sure this is a good idea. IANAL, but a sign-off > has some sort of legal meaning for this project (DCO) > and that would be better decided on a patch-by-patch basis > rather than a blanket statement. IANAL either, but we have been striving to keep output of $ git grep '\.signoff' Documentation empty to keep Sign-off meaningful. Adding more publicized ways to add SoB without thinking will make it harder to argue against one who tells the court "that log message ends with a SoB by person X but it is very plausible that it was done by inertia without person X really intending to certify what DCO says, and the SoB is meaningless". > I don't add my SoB to patches (either my own or received) until > I'm comfortable with it; and I'd rather err on the side of > forgetting and being prodded to resubmit rather than putting > an SoB on the wrong patch.