Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] am: support --empty=(die|drop|keep) option to handle empty patches

Aleen 徐沛文 [off-list ref] writes:

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As per https://git-scm.com/docs/SubmittingPatches#sign-off:

   Please don’t hide your real name.

I suspect your real name is not Aleen, but something with x and w in
it.

I have used "Aleen" [off-list ref] as my GitHub account to
send this pull request, but the e-mail service disgusts me that it
is slow to send emails to the domain "vger.kernel.org". So I
decided to use another mail service to discuss, "Aleen 徐沛文"
[off-list ref] as you saw.

In the open-source world, I usually signed off "Aleen" rather than
"Aleen 徐沛文", and is that necessary to change?

Yes.

As the URL you were referred to explains, the sign-off procedure is
to keep track of provenance of the code, which is a more "legal"
formal requirement than just "I use this pseudonym everywhere".
When a big company comes to us, claiming that "this code is our
intellectual property stolen from us" and pointing at code added by
a patch from you, we do not want to see us in the position to have
to say "eh, somebody who uses psuedonym X signed DCO, but we do not
even know their real name".

Yes.

As the URL you were referred to explains, the sign-off procedure is
to keep track of provenance of the code, which is a more "legal"
formal requirement than just "I use this pseudonym everywhere".
When a big company comes to us, claiming that "this code is our
intellectual property stolen from us" and pointing at code added by
a patch from you, we do not want to see us in the position to have
to say "eh, somebody who uses psuedonym X signed DCO, but we do not
even know their real name".

I know it, and as I said before that gitgitgadget need PR creators to
sign off user name of GitHub account, according to the DCO check. I can
confirmed that "Aleen" and "Aleen 徐沛文" are both the real name of mine,
the committer. I can use the account aleen42@vip.qq.com to confirm this.

I know it, and as I said before that gitgitgadget need PR creators to
sign off user name of GitHub account, according to the DCO check. I can
confirmed that "Aleen" and "Aleen 徐沛文" are both the real name of mine,
the committer. I can use the account aleen42@vip.qq.com to confirm this.

Confirmed.