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

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WSWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Date
Jan 19, 2017, 22:02 UTC
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> > 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?
> 
> That is not exactly what I had in mind.  I was wondering if we can
> do without any external script, implementing the logic you added
> inside shortlog with an extra option that triggers the whole thing,
> which may call into the same trailers API as used by the
> interpret-trailers command to do the parsing and picking out parts.

Sorry for being unclear. That's what I meant with "or to be reimplemented". I should have added "in C".

I am afraid this also requires more time than I am willing to spend on this issue. Seems my hack is going to stay for a while here.

However, thank you for your time and assisting me with pointers!
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  1. Wolfram SangJan 15, 2017
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2017
  3. Jacob KellerJan 16, 2017
  4. Wolfram SangJan 19, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2017
  6. Jeff KingJan 19, 2017
  7. Wolfram SangJan 19, 2017
  8. Jacob KellerJan 19, 2017
  9. Joe PerchesJan 20, 2017
  10. Jacob KellerJan 20, 2017

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