Aleen 徐沛文 [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
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.
Can somebody from GGG land help this user? I _think_ the easiest
workaround (other than not using GGG and sending e-mail in the old
fashioned way) is to commit and sign-off under the real name, and
push under whatever GitHub username to throw a GGG pull request,
which GGG should be able to take, as I have seen users forward other
authors commits just fine.
Can somebody from GGG land help this user? I _think_ the easiest
workaround (other than not using GGG and sending e-mail in the old
fashioned way) is to commit and sign-off under the real name, and
push under whatever GitHub username to throw a GGG pull request,
which GGG should be able to take, as I have seen users forward other
authors commits just fine.
When it comes to GGG, I just want to know whether this is the only
way to contribute to Git? I think we can directly use GitHub to
run the reviewing procedure, rather than sending emails in this old
fashioned way, since that Git code has been maintained in GitHub.
E-mails does well in playing the role as a notification way. They
helps nothing in reviewing code, especially when we need to point out
problems or suggestions referred to certain code snippets.
Hi Junio & Aleen,
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Aleen 徐沛文 [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
quoted
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.
Can somebody from GGG land help this user? I _think_ the easiest
workaround (other than not using GGG and sending e-mail in the old
fashioned way) is to commit and sign-off under the real name, and
push under whatever GitHub username to throw a GGG pull request,
which GGG should be able to take, as I have seen users forward other
authors commits just fine.
GitGitGadget looks at the author information, so you need to ensure that
the "Author:" line in the output of `git log` shows the desired name. If
it does not, you need to configure `user.name` (and user.email)` as
desired, and then re-commit with `git commit --amend --reset-author`, then
force-push.
Ciao,
Johannes