From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:11:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Skipping adding Signed-off-by even if it's not the last on git commit
Message-ID: <xmqqlenj7t0b.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Y4/xSObs9QXvE+xR@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

>> I propose enabling it for commit, merge and am.
>
> So I think that there are some legitimate uses outside of 'format-patch'
> that we may want to keep the existing behavior. So I don't think we
> should necessarily change the default to have other commands outside of
> 'format-patch' start passing APPEND_SIGNOFF_DEDUP.
>
> But I could see a future where we add a new option that controls whether
> or not we pass that flag, perhaps:
>
>     $ git commit --signoff[=[no-]dedup]

That sounds sensible.