Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config?
From: Collin Funk <hidden>
Date: 2025-12-14 23:52:27
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2025-12-16 · Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config? · Johannes Sixt <hidden>
- 2025-12-16 · Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config? · Johannes Sixt <hidden>
- 2025-12-16 · Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config? · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2025-12-16 · Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config? · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2025-12-16 · Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config? · Elijah Newren <hidden>
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón [off-list ref] writes:quoted
this was discussed recently[0] and the point that was made is that SOA are meant to be relevant mainly in open source contexts and should be explicitly given. Carlo [0] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq4iwvfx8s.fsf@gitster.g/ (local)Thanks for a spelunking starter. Perhaps we should resurrect a proposed patch from 2020 (which no longer apply cleanly, but quoted to show what the additinoal text said). https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqpnfw8gyn.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/ (local) to save time from potential contributors? I do not want to see new contributors feeling they wasted their time after putting their effort.
Sounds like a good idea to me since it has come up a few times and, at least from that thread, there is wide agreement it shouldn't be added.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index ced5a9beab..1909551087 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt@@ -171,6 +171,13 @@ The `-m` option is mutually exclusive with `-c`, `-C`, and `-F`. the rights to submit this work under the same license and agrees to a Developer Certificate of Origin (see http://developercertificate.org/ for more information). ++ +As it makes 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." to more +publicized ways to add SoB automatically, Git does not (and will not) +have a configuration variable to enable it by default.
I think it is a bit more clear to just write "Signed-off-by" instead of using the abbreviation SoB. That isn't used elsewhere, as far as I can tell. Collin