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

>> 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),