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In-Reply-To: ("Carlo Marcelo Arenas =?utf-8?Q?Bel=C3=B3n=22's?= message of "Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:44:24 -0800") References: <86c5d40d-5a06-4a69-90d8-a737685b0536@haller-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:44:47 +0900 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón writes: > 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/ 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/ to save time from potential contributors? I do not want to see new contributors feeling they wasted their time after putting their effort. 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. -n:: --no-verify::