From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:02:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA
Message-ID: <20170119220257.GB1747@katana>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7f5qzqx3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>


> > 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!