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

> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> diff --git c/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc w/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc
>>> index cddfb225d1..0b869dfbe4 100644
>>> --- c/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc
>>> +++ w/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc
>>> @@ -16,3 +16,15 @@ endif::git-commit[]
>>>  +
>>>  The `--no-signoff` option can be used to countermand an earlier `--signoff`
>>>  option on the command line.
>>> ++
>>> +As it makes it harder to argue against one who tells the court "the
>>> +log message of the commit ends with a Signed-off-by trailer by person
>>> +X, but it is very plausible that it was done by inertia without person
>>> +X really intending to certify what DCO says, hence the Signed-off-by
>>> +trailer is meaningless", if we add more publicized ways to add
>>> +sign-off automatically, Git does not (and will not) have a
>>> +configuration variable to enable the `--signoff` command line option
>>> +it by default.
>>> ++
>>> +There exists `format.signoff`, but that is a historical mistake, and
>>> +it is not an excuse to pile on more mistakes of the same kind on top.
>>
>> This feels like it's missing context (it'll take the reader a while to
>> figure out why the paragraphs are there and that the two are related),
> 
> Very true.  It may be sufficient to leave this part unmodified,
> keep the updates to gitfaq document, and do nothing else.