Re: [PATCH] am: add am.signoff add config variable

Eric Wong [off-list ref] writes:

Eduardo Habkost [off-list ref] wrote:

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git-am has options to enable --message-id and --3way by default,
but no option to enable --signoff by default. Add a "am.signoff"
config option.

I'm not sure this is a good idea.  IANAL, but a sign-off
has some sort of legal meaning for this project (DCO)
and that would be better decided on a patch-by-patch basis
rather than a blanket statement.

IANAL either, but we have been striving to keep output of

   $ git grep '\.signoff' Documentation

empty to keep Sign-off meaningful. 

Adding more publicized ways to add SoB without thinking will make it
harder to argue against one who tells the court "that log message
ends with a SoB by person X but it is very plausible that it was
done by inertia without person X really intending to certify what
DCO says, and the SoB is meaningless".

I don't add my SoB to patches (either my own or received) until
I'm comfortable with it; and I'd rather err on the side of
forgetting and being prodded to resubmit rather than putting
an SoB on the wrong patch.