# [RFE] Add config option to always add --signoff to git commit 2 messages from 2025-04-10 to 2025-04-10. Participants: Oliver Gondža, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/63276 ## Oliver Gondža, 2025-04-10 07:54 Subject: [RFE] Add config option to always add --signoff to git commit Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ac87b389-2bf8-4c2e-aecd-9e86f65ca8c1%40gmail.com ``` Hello, I would lide to propose an enhancement. As a user, I need several repositories to have my commits both gpg signed, and their messages decorated with the `Signed-off-by:` trailer. This is a requirement to have the contribution accepted by respective communities. The first part is easy to achieve using `commit.gpgsign=true`, but the latter, not so much. Caveats with current feature set: - Passing `--signoff`/`-s` every time is easy to forget. Even more so when some commits can be done by external tools (IDEs doing git pull with merge, etc.) - Creating Git alias almost get there, but one cannot override what `git commit` does. So one have to remember to use the alias, that is error prone. - Using custom hooks to pre-prepare the message is a bit more elaborate. Scales poorly with growing number of repositories requiring signoff. Can collide with other hooks touching the message for some other reason. Possible courses of action: - Introduce new config option `commit.signoff`, that would be independent of `commit.gpgsign`. It would simply cause `git commit` to always behave like `git commit --signoff`. - Add 3rd possible value to `commit.gpgsign` to both sign and add trailer. - Change `commit.gpgsign` semantics to always add the `Signed-off-by:` trailer if set to true. Likely have compatibility implications. - Train developers to never forget `--signoff`/`-s`, befriend `git rebase --signoff` :-/ I appreciate any feedback. Thanks! -- oliver ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2025-04-10 11:54 Subject: Re: [RFE] Add config option to always add --signoff to git commit Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqo6x4p6z2.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: ``` Oliver Gondža writes: > I appreciate any feedback. Thanks! This is almost as old as Git itself. Perhaps start from these places? https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.63.0611281426311.30004@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/ https://lore.kernel.org/git/7veiw69p26.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/git/cfa40ca5-98a1-fc9c-9ccc-f14b81119e60@gmail.com/ ```