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Ben Knoble" , git@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: Add commit.signoff configuration option Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.13 (00d56288) (2024-03-09) Junio C Hamano writes: >But an old mistake is never an excuse that we can pile more mistakes >of the same kind on top. Otherwise we wouldn't have learned anything. I'm curious about what specific issues format.signoff has caused that make you consider it a mistake. Has there been evidence over the past 16 years of it undermining the significance of signoffs or creating other problems?