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Re:GitHub: Commit together with co-authors by WorldMaker on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:31AM (#16266584)
That's what I've seen. Some projects, including the Linux kernel, use Signed-off-by for Developer Certificate of Origin legal processes.

https://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin

It makes sense that GitHub would use something new to avoid stepping on toes, and GitHub's mirrors Signed-off-by in implementation as a git commit message trailer.

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Re:GitHub: Commit together with co-authors by brianmario on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:04PM (#16266893)
The Co-authored-by trailer isn't actually new. In fact it was already being used by over ~1M commits on GitHub before we launched the feature! :)

The git-core commit message conventions docs mention it (https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/CommitMessageConventio...) as do the OpenStack commit message convention docs (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Including_...).

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