Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:47:37 +0200

Heiko Voigt wrote:
> If you regularly create patches which require a Signed-off: line you may
> want to make it your default to add that line. It also helps you not to forget
> to add the -s/--signoff switch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
> Because it happened to me twice already that I forgot to add the switch.
> 
>  Documentation/config.txt           |    4 ++++
>  Documentation/git-format-patch.txt |    1 +
>  builtin-log.c                      |   23 ++++++++++++++++-------
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index ad22cb8..ed85536 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -715,6 +715,10 @@ format.thread::
>  	A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false
>  	value disables threading.
>  
> +format.signoff::
> +	This lets you enable the -s/--signoff option of format-patch by
> +	default. It takes a boolean value.
> +

Can we please make it "formatpatch.signoff" or some such instead? Just
plain "format" is a bit too generic for my taste.

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