Round 5 was right on all three counts. Read dcoapp/app/lib/dco.js this time
rather than the README, which is where the earlier errors came from:
const authors = [commit.author.name, commit.committer.name]
const emails = [commit.author.email, commit.committer.email]
if (isMerge || ...) continue // parents.length > 1
else if (author && author.type === 'Bot') continue
So, corrected:
- Scope. Merge commits and bot-authored commits are skipped, not gated. "Every
commit" overstated it and could prompt a needless history rewrite.
- Matching. The trailer may match the author OR the committer, not the author
alone. A cherry-picker's own signoff is accepted.
- Certification. The DCO expressly covers submitting work created by others
that you have the right to submit, so signing off a cherry-pick is legitimate.
My "never sign off someone else's commit" would have told a maintainer not to
do a correct thing. The real prohibition is narrower: never fabricate a
trailer in another person's name.
This also retracts the mechanical argument in bd6c1072 for dropping the hook —
it does satisfy the check, since you are the committer. The recommendation
against it stands on honest grounds now: the trailer is a certification, a hook
makes it for every commit automatically including work merely applied on
someone else's behalf, and it provably cannot tell the difference. A judgment
about deliberateness, not a claim that it breaks.
Mirror corrected to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HDdo1rNRVQnVRRdsqSrvG3
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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