Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the bpf-next tree

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 19:45:53 EST


From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:39:10 -0800

> But this approach doesn't scale.
> We do rebase our trees when we need to fixup or drop patches and
> at any given point a number of commits will be committed by me
> and another set by Daniel. When we rebase we cannot keep adding
> our SOBs to the other person SOBs.
> Then comes the next rebase and we get to the point of
> double and triple SOBs ?

If you use "--signoff" in whatever commands do the rebase you will
get exactly one signoff for yourself and Daniel at maximum. If it
is there already, git will not add a duplicate one on top.