From: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:10:19 GMT
Subject: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config?
Message-ID: <86c5d40d-5a06-4a69-90d8-a737685b0536@haller-berlin.de>

I find it interesting that of all the git commands that take a --signoff
argument, format-patch is the only one that has a corresponding config
to turn it on for all invocations. I would have thought that git commit
needs this even more; I find it reasonable for users to decide that they
want to add a Signed-off-by trailer to all the commits they make.

But then, what about merge, cherry-pick, and revert? Does it make sense
to turn it on globally for those as well?

The background of this question is lazygit, which has a config for
enabling --signoff for all commits made by it. We recently had a feature
request to extend the meaning of that config to revert as well, and the
discussion came up whether that's a good idea, and if so, whether it
should also extend to cherry-pick and merge.

Any opinions about this? Since I work mostly in closed-source contexts I
don't have much experience with the meaning of Signed-off-by trailers.

-Stefan