On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 08:14:32AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:13 AM John Harris <joh...@splentity.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday, January 18, 2019 4:07:19 AM EST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > TIL - there's a git feature for adding S-o-B to a commit.
> > > I always typed it out by hand ...
> >
> > Not only that, but you can add an option to your either global or project-
> > specific .gitconfig to automatically sign off for you. I use this to
> > automatically sign (-S, not to be confused with signing off, -s) my commits.
> >
> 
> For the record, the option is:
> 
> format.signoff
> 
> A boolean value which lets you enable the -s/--signoff option of
> format-patch by default. Note: Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a
> patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have
> the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
> Please see the SubmittingPatches document for further discussion.

This is only useful when using a mail workflow for submitting patches
because it does not affect commit afaik. There are other options for
commits, though:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15015894/git-add-signed-off-by-line-using-format-signoff-not-working

Nevertheless, then it becomes mostly boilerplate IMHO.

Kind regards
Till
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