From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Signed-off-by vs Reviewed-by Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:21:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20160331172104.GA1623@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20160331123507.GC19857@collabora.co.uk> <20160331143501.GE19857@collabora.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Miklos Vajna , Pranit Bauva , Git List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 31 19:21:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1algHR-0007SM-L0 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:21:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757511AbcCaRVI (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:21:08 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:41723 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752346AbcCaRVI (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:21:08 -0400 Received: (qmail 31075 invoked by uid 102); 31 Mar 2016 17:21:07 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:21:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 15157 invoked by uid 107); 31 Mar 2016 17:21:07 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:21:07 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:21:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:28:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > As to the last step of "integration", we cannot use short-and-sweet > single letter options like '-s' (for sign-off) for each and every > custom trailer different projects use for their own purpose (as > there are only 26 of the lowercase ASCII alphabet letters), so the > most general syntax for the option has to become "--trailer " > or some variation of it, and at that point "-s" would look like a > short-hand for "--trailer signed-off-by". I can imagine it would be useful to give one short-and-sweet to "add my standard trailers", where that standard set is defined in the config file. But that is just a guess; I do not personally have a workflow where such standard trailers exist, beyond the normal s-o-b. -Peff