Re: [PATCH] Trim hint printed when gecos is empty.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 28, 2006, 14:40 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611281536230.30004@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200611281403.36370.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> On Tuesday 2006 November 28 13:28, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > No. As has been often said, a signoff _has_ to be a conscious act, or else
> > it will lose its meaning.
> 
> I'm not suggesting that a project integrator would have that switch on, 
> but for me, in my own repository, where I am the only person writing 
> patches, what possible case is there that I won't sign off?

You are probably different than me. What with my track record, I _trust_ my patches to be not perfect at all. Nevertheless, I commit here and now, and usually I regroup the commits into a nice patch (series) (AKA poor man's StGit).

So I will never need something like you suggest. Having said that, if you think it is best for you to mark every commit as signed-off-by you, just add an alias:

	git repo-config --global alias.c "commit -s"

and you're done. I highly doubt that it makes sense for the average developer, though.