From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:02:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO?
Message-ID: <20090612140229.GA14628@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1244807741-sup-7206@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:58:50AM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:

> We're using it for shared admin edits.  The author is root (or
> whatever the shared account happens to be in other cases) and the SoB
> is the admin that made the change.  It's not enforced by anything
> other than convention, but it's still helpful for us.

Out of curiosity, how do you set the SoB? Does each user do it manually
when making a commit?

Is there a particular reason to favor this over setting GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL (this would lose the fact that the commit was made
from the shared account, but has better tool support for finding changes
by a given author)?

-Peff