Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config?

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Dec 15, 2025, 01:22 UTC
Message-ID: <aT9iu9He3yJ3npWX@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsedc8w7k.fsf@gitster.g>

On 2025-12-14 at 23:44:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Thanks for a spelunking starter.
> 
> Perhaps we should resurrect a proposed patch from 2020 (which no
> longer apply cleanly, but quoted to show what the additinoal text
> said).
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqpnfw8gyn.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
> 
> to save time from potential contributors?  I do not want to see new
> contributors feeling they wasted their time after putting their
> effort.

I think this would be a fine approach or we could add an entry in the Git FAQ (or both). I agree that this is something that comes up frequently and writing it down in a more visible way would be kinder to users and mailing list participants.

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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> index ced5a9beab..1909551087 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> @@ -171,6 +171,13 @@ The `-m` option is mutually exclusive with `-c`, `-C`, and `-F`.
>  	the rights to submit this work under the same license and
>  	agrees to a Developer Certificate of Origin
>  	(see http://developercertificate.org/ for more information).
> ++
> +As it makes it harder to argue against one who tells the court "that
> +log message ends with a SoB by person X but it is very plausible
> +that it was done by inertia without person X really intending to
> +certify what DCO says, and the SoB is meaningless." to more

I think the period should be replaced here by a comma since the quotation is part of a larger sentence.

> +publicized ways to add SoB automatically, Git does not (and will not)
> +have a configuration variable to enable it by default.

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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA