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[PATCH] Allow cherry-pick (and revert) to add signoff line

From
Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2008, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID
<1208714585-4053-1-git-send-email-dpmcgee@gmail.com>

I often find myself pulling patches off of other peoples trees using cherry-pick, and following it with an immediate 'git commit --amend -s' command. Eliminate the need for a double commit by allowing signoff on a cherry-pick or revert.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
---

This is something I have done in my workflow for a long time, and it seems like a weird omission to me. Signoffs can be done on git-am without having a second commit, and I often have a workflow where I am picking patches from other users' topic branches and have reviewed the patch and would like to signoff when I pull it into my tree.

I'm not particularly happy about the 4 case if statement at the end, so I'd be happy to clean that up if anyone has suggestions.

 builtin-revert.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-revert.c b/builtin-revert.c
index 607a2f0..433d0dd 100644
--- a/builtin-revert.c
+++ b/builtin-revert.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static const char * const cherry_pick_usage[] = {
 	NULL
 };
 
-static int edit, no_replay, no_commit, mainline;
+static int edit, no_replay, no_commit, mainline, signoff;
 static enum { REVERT, CHERRY_PICK } action;
 static struct commit *commit;
 
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static void parse_args(int argc, const char **argv)
 		OPT_BOOLEAN('e', "edit", &edit, "edit the commit message"),
 		OPT_BOOLEAN('x', NULL, &no_replay, "append commit name when cherry-picking"),
 		OPT_BOOLEAN('r', NULL, &noop, "no-op (backward compatibility)"),
+		OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "signoff", &signoff, "add Signed-off-by: header"),
 		OPT_INTEGER('m', "mainline", &mainline, "parent number"),
 		OPT_END(),
 	};
@@ -404,10 +405,14 @@ static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv)
 	 */
 
 	if (!no_commit) {
-		if (edit)
+		if (edit && !signoff)
 			return execl_git_cmd("commit", "-n", NULL);
-		else
+		else if (edit)
+			return execl_git_cmd("commit", "-n", "-s", NULL);
+		else if (!signoff)
 			return execl_git_cmd("commit", "-n", "-F", defmsg, NULL);
+		else
+			return execl_git_cmd("commit", "-n", "-s", "-F", defmsg, NULL);
 	}
 	free(reencoded_message);
 
-- 
1.5.5
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  1. Allow cherry-pick (and revert) to add signoff lineDan McGee, Apr 20, 2008
  2. Björn SteinbrinkApr 20, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2008
  4. Allow cherry-pick (and revert) to add signoff lineDan McGee, Apr 26, 2008
  5. Allow cherry-pick (and revert) to add signoff lineDan McGee, Apr 26, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2008
  7. Remove 'header' from --signoff option descriptionDan McGee, Apr 27, 2008

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