Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> "Signed-off-by:C O <Mister@xxxxxxxxx>" is often too >> verbose and error-prone. > > The 'trailer.<token>.command' config option can already be used to > help with that, for example: > > ------- > $ git config trailer.sign.key "Signed-off-by: " > $ git config trailer.sign.ifexists replace > $ git config trailer.sign.command "git log --author='\$ARG' -1 > --format='format:%aN <%aE>'" > $ git interpret-trailers --trailer sign=Linus<<EOF > subject > > body > EOF > subject > > body > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ------- > > So even without this patch, after your first patch that implements > `git commit --trailer ...`, it should be easy to setup something less > verbose and less error-prone. It is nice that it makes the complexity of 2/2 unnecessary ;-)