Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> I noticed a lot of Signed-off-by: lines in Stefano's series.
>> This makes our no-S-o-b policy more apparent:
...
>> + $buf =~ /^ *Signed-off-by:/i
>> + and return q(do not use "Signed-off-by:");
>> +
>> return '';
>> }
>>
> Sigh, this will likely cause problems with my "ci" git alias ("commit -s"),
> which I'm very finger-trained to use. Couldn't the hook be instead enhanced
> to strip "Signed-off-by:" lines? Or better again, those "Signed-off-by:"
> lines that refer to the author or the committer?
I suggest you avoid using git commit's -s option.
Instead, record your general preference in ~/.gitconfig and in
any coreutils working directory do this (assuming that differs):
git config format.signoff true
>From then on, "git ci" will do what we want.
