Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: tags -> trailers

From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2024, 21:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CACZqfqBnqPpngxkYPhokOPdQN0T6tH4Zuzwv_wLgFCnY9FTXLA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d3a1ba01104da8496d52308c07c5c274fd30b0c2.1729443395.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>

Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:

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> “Trailer” is the preferred nomenclature in this project.  Also add a
> definite article where I think it makes sense.
>
> As we can see the rest of the document already prefers this term.  This
> just gets rid of the last stragglers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
> ---
>
> Notes (series):
>     Commit message:
>
>       “ “Trailer” is the preferred nomenclature in this project.
>
>     Must surely be true since git-interpret-trailers(1) does not even
>     contain the string “tag”.
>
>     I did a grep in this directory:
>
>         git grep tags ':(exclude)RelNotes'
>
>     It didn’t look like there were any other mentions of “tags” in this
>     sense.  Of course it was difficult to look through.
>
>     +CC: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> based on
>     e.g. ac9fff2bf1c (SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers,
>     2023-12-28)

This change makes sense to me.