Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... For > example, some of the objections are about format.signoff in 2006, but > we merged that into the tree since 2009 in commit 1d1876e9300c ("Add > configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch"). But an old mistake is never an excuse that we can pile more mistakes of the same kind on top. Otherwise we wouldn't have learned anything.