Would a consequence of this be no committing of your own changes? Signing off on your own commit wouldn't add any value.
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Mark Grover <[email protected]> wrote: > And, about your former point: > > Our git format-patch policy for patches ensures that the name of the actual > contributor who committed the code shows up on the commit message when > doing git log. However, I think it will be useful to see which committer > committed that patch on behalf of the contributor. That's exactly the > problem "--sign-off" solves. > > Linux kernel< > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=HEAD > >, > for example, has a policy to use --sign-off flag and the same applies to > contributing to the git > project< > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=HEAD > > > . > And, there are some other benefits too, listed here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1962094/what-is-the-sign-off-feature-in-git-for > > Mark > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
