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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman adding "Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1" to every single commit
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:09:15
Message-Id: 55D4C63D.9070304@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman adding "Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1" to every single commit by Matthew Thode
1 On 08/19/2015 08:00 PM, Matthew Thode wrote:
2 > On 08/19/2015 12:48 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Matthew Thode
4 >> <prometheanfire@g.o> wrote:
5 >>> On 08/19/2015 12:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
6 >>>> On 08/19/2015 09:33 AM, hasufell wrote:
7 >>>>> I don't want to start a lot of bikeshed, but I think this information is
8 >>>>> practically useless.
9 >>>>>
10 >>>>> If there has been a problem with a commit, ask the developer about his
11 >>>>> repoman version (which I believe was the reason for this, unless you
12 >>>>> want me to add "Package-Manager: paludis-2.4.0" to every commit ;).
13 >>>>>
14 >>>>> Let's just remove it.
15 >>>>>
16 >>>>
17 >>>> The intent is to leave a record of the version of repoman used, which
18 >>>> leaves an audit trail in case there's a bug in some some version (or to
19 >>>> detect if someone is using an ancient version). It can especially be
20 >>>> useful when new repoman checks need to be added for new EAPI features.
21 >>>>
22 >>> If repoman supported adding a signedoffby line I'd likely use it more
23 >>> for commits. Still running repoman full before commit though.
24 >>
25 >> I do not believe we have an requirement for adding Signed-off-by in
26 >> the gentoo repository. Why do you feel the need to do that?
27 >>
28 > General completeness is all
29 >
30
31 Signed-off-by has a completely different purpose which is not part of
32 our workflow, so that tag is pretty useless to us most of the time.
33
34 See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Gentoo_git_workflow#Sign-Off

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