From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 15:49:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git cherry-pick -x: missing blank line before the "cherry picked from commit" line
Message-ID: <20221204154927.GF33204@zira.vinc17.org>
In-Reply-To: <a97758b5-dfdc-9a24-654b-8846a9feb45d@dunelm.org.uk>

On 2022-12-04 15:13:52 +0000, Phillip Wood wrote:
> On 02/12/2022 17:01, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > First, one issue is that this is not documented (I was not aware of
> > the notion of trailers, well, at least concerning a special handling
> > by Git).
> 
> They are mentioned in the documentation for 'git commit' see the --signoff
> and --trailer options. The main reference is 'git interpret-trailers'

This issue occurs with "git cherry-pick -x", so that one could expect
documentation there. Since I don't use trailers (this was a false
positive), I wouldn't have the idea to look at the --trailer
documentation.

> > Then perhaps there should be some configuration to define which
> > tokens are allowed (or forbidden) for trailers. For instance,
> > I would say that "Note" is too common in log messages to be
> > regarded as a trailer token.
> 
> There are some safeguards when looking for trailers (see the
> interpret-trailers man page) I think you have been unlucky here, I don't
> remember this being reported before. I've cc'd Christian who knows more
> about trailers than I do to see if he has anything to add.

I think that what could be interesting there is a
trailer.<token>.separators option (assuming that one can
use an empty list of separators to disable a token), but
that doesn't exist.

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