Re: [PATCH] rebase: add --signoff option

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Oct 1, 2007, 04:59 UTC
Message-ID: <8135FFD1-D6BB-41FF-9C3A-D02B3D223BF3@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709302240450.28395@racer.site>

On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
>> On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>>>
>>>> When preparing a series of commits for upstream you may need to
>>>> signoff commits if you forgot to do so earlier.
>>>
>>> Why not use format-patch's --signoff option for that?
>>
>> format-patch is fine for mail. But if I either push the commits to a
>> shared repo (like msysgit's mob) or ask upstream to pull from my  
>> public
>> repo format-patch doesn't help directly.
>
> Fair enough.  But maybe "rebase --interactive" is not too difficult,
> either?

But not too easy either because "rebase --interactive" is based on "git merge" and not "git am". You can just use a two step process instead and first "rebase --interactive" followed by "rebase --signoff".

	Steffen