Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA

> > As to the implementation, I am wondering if we can make this somehow
> > work well with the "trailers" code we already have, instead of
> > inventing yet another parser of trailers.  
> > 
> > In its current shape, "interpret-trailers" focuses on "editing" an
> > existing commit log message to tweak the trailer lines.  That mode
> > of operation would help amending and rebasing, and to do that it
> > needs to parse the commit log message, identify trailer blocks,
> > parse out each trailer lines, etc.  
> > 
> > There is no fundamental reason why its output must be an edited
> > original commit log message---it should be usable as a filter that
> > picks trailer lines of the selected trailer type, like "Tested-By",
> > etc.
> 
> I didn't know about trailers before. As I undestand it, I could use
> "Tested-by" as the key, and the commit subject as the value. This list
> then could be parsed and brought into proper output shape. It would
> simplify the subject parsing, but most things my AWK script currently
> does would still need to stay or to be reimplemented (extracting names
> from tags, creating arrays of tags given by $name). Am I correct?
> 
> All under the assumption that trailers work on a range of commits. I
> have to admit that adding this to git is beyond my scope.