Re: [PATCH v10 0/6] notes.c: introduce "--separator" option

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: May 18, 2023, 13:56 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <cover.1684411136.git.dyroneteng@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 18, 2023, at 14:02, Teng Long wrote:

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> From: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
>
> Diff since v9:
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> 1. [4/6] support `--no-separator` which means not to add any paragraph-breaks.

Nice to see. :) I think this will be useful. Specifically:

Johan Herland wrote (2010):[1]

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> BTW, since I started talking about git notes, people on this list have found
> more and more interesting use cases for them:
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> […]
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> - Help in bug tracking with header-like lines such as:
>     - Causes-Bug: #12345
>     - Fixes-Bug: #54321
>
> - Store after-the-fact "Acked-By", "Reviewed-By", etc. annotations

This switch is nice for that since you you don’t really want blank lines for those kinds of format.

Cheers

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/201001201148.11701.johan@herland.net/

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk