From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:23:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Signed-off-by vs Reviewed-by
Message-ID: <xmqqziteo92u.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160331172104.GA1623@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:28:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> As to the last step of "integration", we cannot use short-and-sweet
>> single letter options like '-s' (for sign-off) for each and every
>> custom trailer different projects use for their own purpose (as
>> there are only 26 of the lowercase ASCII alphabet letters), so the
>> most general syntax for the option has to become "--trailer <arg>"
>> or some variation of it, and at that point "-s" would look like a
>> short-hand for "--trailer signed-off-by".
>
> I can imagine it would be useful to give one short-and-sweet to "add my
> standard trailers", where that standard set is defined in the config
> file. But that is just a guess; I do not personally have a workflow
> where such standard trailers exist, beyond the normal s-o-b.

Yup, I agree; I meant by "some variation of it" to cover such an
arrangement ;-)