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diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.adoc b/Documentation/gitfaq.adoc index f2917d142c..8d3647d359 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitfaq.adoc +++ b/Documentation/gitfaq.adoc @@ -83,6 +83,25 @@ Windows would be the configuration `"C:\Program Files\Vim\gvim.exe" --nofork`, which quotes the filename with spaces and specifies the `--nofork` option to avoid backgrounding the process. +[[sign-off]] +Why not have `commit.signoff` and other configuration variables?:: + Git intentionally does not (and will not) provide a + configuration variable, such as `commit.signoff`, to + automatically add `--signoff` by default. The reason is to + protect the legal and intentional significance of a sign-off. + If there were more automated and widely publicized ways for + sign-offs to be appended, it would become easier for someone + to argue later that a "Signed-off-by" trailer was just added + out of habit or by automation, without the committer's full + awareness or intent to certify their agreement with the + Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) or a similar statement. + This could undermine the sign-off’s credibility in legal or + contractual situations. ++ +There exists `format.signoff`, but that is a historical mistake, and +it is not an excuse to add more mistakes of the same kind on top. + + Credentials ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc b/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc index cddfb225d1..6fc2769257 100644 --- a/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc +++ b/Documentation/signoff-option.adoc @@ -16,3 +16,7 @@ endif::git-commit[] + The `--no-signoff` option can be used to countermand an earlier `--signoff` option on the command line. ++ +Git does not (and will not) have a configuration variable to enable +the `--signoff` command line option by default; see the +`commit.signoff` entry in linkgit:gitfaq[7] for more details. |