From: David Brown <davidb@quicinc.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:23:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: More generous accepting of RFC-2822 footer lines.
Message-ID: <20091028142328.GA13343@huya.quicinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4yguh00.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:14:55AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> When deciding to omit adding a new S-o-b, we deliberately check only the
> last S-o-b to see if it matches what we are trying to add.  This is so
> that a message from you, that has my patch that was reviewed and touched
> up by you with your sign-off, i.e.

This is good to know.  I'll leave the existing last-SoB test in
place then, and just use the sophisticated check for a block of
RFC2822 footers to determine if there should be a blank line.

Jeff also pointed out that I should probably also allow lines
starting with whitespace to be considered header lines.

David