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Re: git am and duplicate signatures

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2016, 17:34 UTC
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
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> On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 09:54 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Support for more generic footers was supposed to come when the
>> "interpret-trailers" topic started, but the author of the topic
>> seems to have lost interest before the mechanism has become ready to
>> be integrated in the workflow commands like "am", "commit", "rebase"
>> etc., which is unfortunate.
>
> I think adding at least an option to git send-email
> allowing auto-cc's for all
> 	"<foo>-by: [name] <address>"
> lines in the commit log would be useful.
>
> Today, only "Signed-off-by" and "CC" lines are
> added to cc's.
>
> I've always called these lines "<foo>-by:" lines
> "signatures", but perhaps there's a better name.

I think we casually call them footers (as they are counter-part to "headers"), or trailers.

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