From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:18:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: teach --gpg-sign option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4E8EBAFE.8020805@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: >> 3. If I have prepared a series on a local branch, and I want to sign all >>    of them, is this a variant of rebase or? > > If you really want to sign all you can rebase-i and use "exec" to do > that automatically, but there's no point: signing the top-most commit > serves the same purpose. I think Gentoo wants identity, who (typically a Gentoo dev) signs this particular commit and takes responsibility for making sure the commit follows all kinds of Gentoo requirements. Commits can be passed around, author and committer are not a reliable source. -- Duy