From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:28:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [GSOC] commit: provides multiple common signatures
Message-ID: <xmqq1rclfvl0.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.901.git.1615446968597.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
>
> Similar to "Helped-by", "Reported-by", "Reviewed-by", "Mentored-by"
> these signatures are often seen in git commit messages. After
> referring to the simple implementation of `commit --signoff`
> and `send-email -cc=" commiter <email>"`, I am considering
> whether to provide multiple signature parameters from the
> command line.
> + ...
> +	>file6 &&
> +	git add file6 &&
> +	git commit -H "foo <bar@frotz>" \
> +	-R "foo2 <bar2@frotz>" \
> +	-M "foo3 <bar3@frotz>" \
> +	-r "foo4 <bar4@frotz>" -s -m "thank you" &&

Firm NAK.

Especially, not in this form that squats on short-and-sweet single
letter option names only to support the convention of this single
project (namely, Git).

cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200824061156.1929850-1-espeer@gmail.com/

Thanks.