Re: The top 1% of commit trailers

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 26, 2021, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID: <60ae0151b4df8_34e96208d0@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <24504f19-eb8e-c725-723a-22efea7c865c@gmail.com>

Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

> On 26/05/21 05.09, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> > Total wealth: 1%
> > 
> > [1] https://gist.github.com/felipec/ce491d351c88e4acbdbf6bc02a47223d
> 
> Why did you deliberately exclude Signed-off-by trailer? I don't see
> that trailer above.

Because it's in a completely different class. It is mandatory, and we all know it's #1, by far.

In the wealth analogy Signed-off-by is a king; so far away from anybody else it's not even worth contemplating.

> For some trailers that have only 1 occurrence, these are typos of
> intended trailers (such as heled-by and helpd-by which means
> helped-by).

Indeed. I had code in place to fix those, but then I decided against that because they exemplify a crucial part of language; mistakes happen.

It would be cheating to hide that truth.

Heled-by is now part of the history, just like Simplified-testcase-and-bisection-by, and I'm not going to try to hide either of those.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras