fix: enforce the DCO identity match AGENTS.md already promises - #1013
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AGENTS.md says the sign-off name and e-mail "must match the committer's git identity" and that "a commit-msg pre-commit hook enforces this". The hook only ever checked that a well-formed trailer was present — it never read git config, and the identity requirement appeared solely inside its own error text. CI's dco.yml is the same: present and well-formed, no identity comparison. So `Signed-off-by: Anybody <a@b.c>` passed everywhere. That matters because a sign-off certifies that *you* have the right to submit the work. A trailer naming someone else certifies nothing. The check compares against GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT rather than `git config user.name`, because that is what --signoff itself uses: it honours the GIT_COMMITTER_* environment overrides the config does not see, so the two can disagree and only one of them is the identity that ends up in the commit. At least one trailer must match, not all of them. Relaying a patch keeps the original author's sign-off and adds yours, and that has to stay legal. Tested: own sign-off, relayed sign-off plus own, and differing e-mail case all pass; no trailer, someone else's trailer alone, wrong name, and wrong e-mail all fail with the identity printed next to what was found. A GIT_COMMITTER_NAME override is picked up where `git config` would have missed it. Note this closes the local half only. dco.yml still accepts any well-formed trailer, so a `--no-verify` commit reaches CI unchallenged; worth a follow-up if we want the guarantee end to end. Signed-off-by: Ivan Yang <yifanyang@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe DCO hook now requires complete Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change strengthens local DCO enforcement, but the current parser still accepts malformed trailers that repository validation rejects, so contributors may receive conflicting results between local checks and CI. Merge should wait for the parser rules to be aligned. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@scripts/check_dco_signoff.py`:
- Line 22: Update _TRAILER_RE to match CI’s DCO trailer rules: require
horizontal whitespace after “Signed-off-by:” rather than allowing line breaks or
no whitespace, and require an email address containing “@” with a domain suffix.
Preserve multiline trailer parsing without allowing the captured identity to
span lines.
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| _TRAILER_RE = re.compile(r"^Signed-off-by: \S.*<\S+>", re.MULTILINE) | ||
| # A real git trailer: "Signed-off-by: Name <email>" at the start of a line, with | ||
| # at least one non-whitespace character before the angle bracket. | ||
| _TRAILER_RE = re.compile(r"^Signed-off-by:\s*(\S.*?)\s*<(\S+)>\s*$", re.MULTILINE) |
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Align local trailer parsing with CI validation.
Line 22 accepts Signed-off-by:Name <user@example.com>, emails without @ and a domain suffix, and multiline values because \s matches line breaks. A matching identity then passes the local hook, but .github/workflows/dco.yml rejects the trailer. Require horizontal whitespace after the colon and validate the email shape used by CI.
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-_TRAILER_RE = re.compile(r"^Signed-off-by:\s*(\S.*?)\s*<(\S+)>\s*$", re.MULTILINE)
+_TRAILER_RE = re.compile(
+ r"^Signed-off-by:[ \t]+(\S[^<@>]*?)[ \t]*<([^@\s]+@[^@\s]+\.[^@\s]+)>[ \t]*$",
+ re.MULTILINE,
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In `@scripts/check_dco_signoff.py` at line 22, Update _TRAILER_RE to match CI’s
DCO trailer rules: require horizontal whitespace after “Signed-off-by:” rather
than allowing line breaks or no whitespace, and require an email address
containing “@” with a domain suffix. Preserve multiline trailer parsing without
allowing the captured identity to span lines.
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Closing this — the rule is wrong for how this repo is actually used, and I only found that after checking the change against real history rather than synthetic cases. Across the last 6 months of non-merge commits on main, only 26% carry a sign-off matching the author. Of the mismatches, the common shape is not abuse: Both are arguably more DCO-correct than the git identity is — the DCO asks for a real legal name, and git author names are frequently the GitHub handle. A strict name comparison would have blocked at least three contributors mid-workflow, which is a worse outcome than the gap it closes. The underlying finding stands: |
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AGENTS.md says the sign-off name and e-mail "must match the committer's git identity" and that "a
commit-msgpre-commit hook enforces this".It does not.
check_dco_signoff.pymatched^Signed-off-by: \S.*<\S+>and stopped there — it never read git config, and the identity requirement appeared only inside its own error text.dco.ymlis the same shape: present, well-formed, no identity comparison.So this passed everywhere:
That matters because a sign-off certifies that you have the right to submit the work. A trailer naming someone else certifies nothing.
What changed
At least one
Signed-off-bymust match the committer. At least one, not all — relaying a patch keeps the original author's sign-off and adds yours, and that stays legal.Compared against
GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, notgit config user.name, because that is what--signoffitself uses: it honours theGIT_COMMITTER_*environment overrides the config cannot see, so the two can disagree and only one is the identity that lands in the commit. E-mail compares case-insensitively; the name as written.Failure prints your identity next to what it found, plus
git commit --amend -s.Tested
GIT_COMMITTER_NAMEoverridegit configwould have missed itScope
This closes the local half only.
dco.ymlstill accepts any well-formed trailer, so a--no-verifycommit reaches CI unchallenged. Worth a follow-up if we want the guarantee end to end — happy to do it in a separate PR, since it changes what CI rejects.1 file, no behaviour change for anyone already using
git commit -s.Summary by CodeRabbit