From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 13:22:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: Add commit.signoff configuration option
Message-ID: <aCXqqj6gKc7-fjoF@chrisdown.name>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy0uy4thk.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano writes:
>But an old mistake is never an excuse that we can pile more mistakes
>of the same kind on top.  Otherwise we wouldn't have learned anything.

I'm curious about what specific issues format.signoff has caused that make you 
consider it a mistake. Has there been evidence over the past 16 years of it 
undermining the significance of signoffs or creating other problems?