Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] am: support --empty=(die|drop|keep) option to handle empty patches

From: Aleen 徐沛文 <pwxu@coremail.cn>
Date: Nov 19, 2021, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID: <2ebb863f.246.17d37140518.Coremail.pwxu@coremail.cn>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmtm0snol.fsf@gitster.g>

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> Yes.
> 
> As the URL you were referred to explains, the sign-off procedure is
> to keep track of provenance of the code, which is a more "legal"
> formal requirement than just "I use this pseudonym everywhere".
> When a big company comes to us, claiming that "this code is our
> intellectual property stolen from us" and pointing at code added by
> a patch from you, we do not want to see us in the position to have
> to say "eh, somebody who uses psuedonym X signed DCO, but we do not
> even know their real name".

I know it, and as I said before that gitgitgadget need PR creators to sign off user name of GitHub account, according to the DCO check. I can confirmed that "Aleen" and "Aleen 徐沛文" are both the real name of mine, the committer. I can use the account aleen42@vip.qq.com to confirm this.