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>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> to the commit message as a separate line. The sign-off must contain |
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>> -the committer's legal name as a natural person, i.e., the name that |
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>> -would appear in a government issued document. |
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>> +the committer's real name as a natural person, i.e., the name that |
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>> +you would use to present yourself to your colleagues. |
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> This is insensitive to people who don't have any colleagues. |
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The snarkiness of Michał's comment left aside, in general "the name that |
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you would use to present yourself to your colleagues" won't work. It is |
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one of the examples in [1]: |
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| 4. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by. |
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| Not so, even in Western countries, where a woman may choose to retain |
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| her unmarried name at work (where she is already known by that name), |
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| and use her husband’s surname on social occasions, and even on legal |
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| documents such as mortgages and loans. |
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(IIRC, robbat2 had once pointed me to that document, in the context of |
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a contributor from South India with a single-letter name.) |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/ |
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