How to add signoffs (Signed-Off-By: ...) ?

[Sean Russell]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 11:14:31 am Douglas Philips wrote:
> It feels to me that signoffs are a lot like tags, meta-data about the
> repository (committed changesets in this case), and maybe are amenable
> to the same kind of solution. Just tossing out an idea off the cuff,
> why not have an approved/signed-off file. Pull the changeset, add a
> signed off line, commit. Just as 'hg tag' can modify a file and commit
> the change, so could an extension such as 'sign-off'.

Arne's recent implementation of groups (Message-Id: 
200806280237.42560.arne_bab at web.de) would be a good starting point; the 
concepts -- as you say -- are very similar, and Arne's design is clean and 
the implementation is concise.

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