From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:27:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] advice: add stashBeforeCheckout advice for dirty branch switches
Message-ID: <20260314-towering-tourmaline-seahorse-caf5f7@lemur>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZQu1hyiwMpBxJ=0PhNCf6LQqBt3F3=kycDv9cZST_JTNw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 10:09:25AM -0700, Karthik Nayak wrote:
> >> I will rework the patch in that direction and send a v4.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arsh Srivastava <arshsrivastava00@gmail.com>
> >
> > Just a comment by a bystander, but it confuses me quite a lot to see
> > in-body "Subject:" and "Sign-off" in a message that is *not* a patch
> > at all.  What are you signing off with this signature?
> 
> Tangentially, I know that b4 adds a "Sign-off" to the cover message.

This is a feature, because some subsystems use the cover message as the source
for the merge commit, so the cover message *is* a commit despite not being a
patch. :)

Regards,
-- 
KR