From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:24:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: shortlog: put back trailer paragraphs
Message-ID: <20260202182421.GA3421838@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <shortlog_trailers.253@msgid.xyz>

On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 06:59:42PM +0100, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com wrote:

> 47beb37b (shortlog: match commit trailers with --group, 2020-09-27)
> added the `trailer` bullet point with three paragraphs.[1] Later,
> 3dc95e09 (shortlog: support arbitrary commit format `--group`s,
> 2022-10-24) put the single-paragraph bullet point about `format` right
> after the first paragraph about `trailer`. That meant that the second
> and third paragraphs for `trailer` got moved to `format`.
> 
> Move the two paragraphs back to `trailer`. We now also need one blank
> line before the final bullet point so that it does not get joined with
> the second bullet point.

Yeah, the change in 3dc95e09 was obviously wrong. The results look good
here, via both doc-diff output and just eyeballing the generated .html
file. Thanks for catching this.

-Peff