Re: [PATCH 3/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:18:19AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> > It can be useful to invoke interpret-trailers for the
>> > primary purpose of parsing existing trailers. But in that
>> > case, we don't want to apply existing ifMissing or ifExists
>> > rules from the config. Let's add a special mode where we
>> > avoid applying those rules. Coupled with --only-trailers,
>> > this gives us a reasonable parsing tool.
>>
>> I have the impression that the name is slightly misleading
>> because 'only' just reduces the set. it does not enhance it.
>> (Do we have a configuration that says "remove this trailer
>> anytime"?)
>
> No, I think you can only add trailers via ifExists or ifMissing.
> I actually called this --no-config originally, because to me it meant
> "do not apply config". But the processing applies also to --trailer
> arguments no the command line, which is how I ended up with
> --only-existing.
>
>> So maybe this is rather worded as 'exact-trailers' ?
>
> I'm not fond of that, as it's vague about which exact trailers we're
> talking about. I also thought of something like --verbatim, but I'd
> worry that would seem to conflict with --normalize.
>
> I dunno. All of the names seem not quite descriptive enough to me.