On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:02:29PM -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
On 5/14/07, Jason Chu <jason@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
Is it just me, or does GIT provide no easy way to sign off on a pulled branch? I'm looking at each patch as I go, and I wanted to sign off but it seems this is not a normal thing to do. Anyone that has figured this out, let me know.
-Dan
My understanding is that a git pull can't modify patches. Signing off on a patch modifies it. git-am can signoff for sure.
Jason
Yeah, I wasn't looking so much for it on the git-pull, but things like git-rebase actually modify the patches. Why isn't there some sort of git-rebase --sign <branch> ?
-Dan
I think it's because the sign off was created to track patches as they pass through mailboxes. Once something is in a git repo, a git pull already has the name of the person who commited it. Applying that logic, git rebase just applies patches onto a different head, so it doesn't make sense to sign-off them. The author stays the same. Jason