Re: [PATCH] Trim hint printed when gecos is empty.

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2006 November 28 13:28, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> No. As has been often said, a signoff _has_ to be a conscious act, or else
> it will lose its meaning.

I'm not suggesting that a project integrator would have that switch on, but 
for me, in my own repository, where I am the only person writing patches, 
what possible case is there that I won't sign off?

> Once you are reasonably convinced you want to sign off on that commit,

I am always convinced.  Perhaps I am doing wrong - please explain to me under 
what circumstance I would /not/ want to sign off on a commit.  (assuming I am 
acting merely as a developer on a project, I am not accepting patches from 
anyone but me).

> just add "-s" to git-commit. And if you forgot, fix it by "git commit -s
> --amend". (Note that this is another nice example why "-a" by default
> would be wrong, wrong, wrong.)

I don't see what one has to do with the other.  There are good arguments for 
not having "-a" default, but signing off isn't one of them.


Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE