On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:50:19PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:

If you regularly create patches which require a Signed-off: line you may
want to make it your default to add that line. It also helps you not to forget
to add the -s/--signoff switch.

I personally have no problem with such an option, but it has been argued
against before. E.g.:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/32522
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/51780

There is also some discussion here indicating that it might be accepted:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103939

-Peff