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

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2006 November 28 14:40, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> You are probably different than me. What with my track record, I _trust_
> my patches to be not perfect at all. Nevertheless, I commit here and now,
> and usually I regroup the commits into a nice patch (series) (AKA poor
> man's StGit).

I'm certainly not perfect, nor would I ever claim to be.  Perhaps I have 
misunderstood the purpose of the Signed-Off line.  I had understood it was a 
legal tool to trace the provenance of a patch - not to sign off on it being 
bug free (which surely is impossible).

Since I know that I, and I alone wrote that patch, I can sign off on it 
regardless of it being any good technically.

This is in agreement with my understanding of the 
Documentation/SubmittingPatches file included with git.

"The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for
the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have
the right to pass it on as a open-source patch."

> So I will never need something like you suggest. Having said that, if you
> think it is best for you to mark every commit as signed-off-by you, just
> add an alias:
>
> 	git repo-config --global alias.c "commit -s"

That requires that I introduce a new command; I want the existing command to 
do The Right Thing.  Also; I certainly wouldn't want it global, as I said in 
my original message - this is a per-project choice.  Some projects don't have 
Signed-Off lines, so there is no point there.

Ideally, I'd be able to do
        git repo-config alias.commit "commit -s"
Just as I can with shell commands.


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