Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] xdiff: delete static forward declarations in xprepare

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 20, 2025, 18:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20250920184638.GA1010995@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <83F61517-06DB-402E-911A-E33EE07D54AE@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 01:46:19PM -0400, Ben Knoble wrote:

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> >> Best-viewed-with: --color-moved
> > 
> > Two comments.
> > 
> > - This is a bit unusual to see in the trailer.
> 
> This was (loosely!) my suggestion, and I think Peff has once or twice
> done something similar.

I don't think I've ever used a trailer like that, but I do sometimes mention it in prose. I'll sometimes put it in comments below the "---" line, though.

-Peff

PS I sometimes find:

     git log --format='%(trailers:only,keyonly)' |
     sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

   amusing to look through for this sort of thing.

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