Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] [GSOC] commit: add --trailer option

> > +             if (run_command(&run_trailer))
> > +                     strvec_clear(&run_trailer.args);
>
> This is git-commit, shouldn't we die() here instead of ignoring errors
> in sub-processes?

>
> > +             strvec_clear(&trailer_args);
> > +     }
> > +
> >       /*
> >        * Reject an attempt to record a non-merge empty commit without
> >        * explicit --allow-empty. In the cherry-pick case, it may be
> > @@ -1507,6 +1529,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >               OPT_STRING(0, "fixup", &fixup_message, N_("commit"), N_("use autosquash formatted message to fixup specified commit")),
> >               OPT_STRING(0, "squash", &squash_message, N_("commit"), N_("use autosquash formatted message to squash specified commit")),
> >               OPT_BOOL(0, "reset-author", &renew_authorship, N_("the commit is authored by me now (used with -C/-c/--amend)")),
> > +             OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "trailer", NULL, N_("trailer"), N_("trailer(s) to add"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG, opt_pass_trailer),
> >               OPT_BOOL('s', "signoff", &signoff, N_("add a Signed-off-by trailer")),
>
> Not required for this change, but perhaps a change here to N_() (if we
> can get it to fit) + doc update saying that we prefer
> --trailer="Signed-Off-By: to --signoff"? More on that later.
>
> >               OPT_FILENAME('t', "template", &template_file, N_("use specified template file")),
> >               OPT_BOOL('e', "edit", &edit_flag, N_("force edit of commit")),
> > diff --git a/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh b/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh
> > index 6396897cc818..0acf23799931 100755
> > --- a/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh
> > +++ b/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh
> > @@ -154,6 +154,26 @@ test_expect_success 'sign off' '
> >
> >  '
> >
> > +test_expect_success 'trailer' '
> > +     >file1 &&
> > +     git add file1 &&
> > +     git commit -s --trailer "Signed-off-by:C O Mitter1 <committer1@example.com>" \
> > +             --trailer "Helped-by:C O Mitter2 <committer2@example.com>"  \
> > +             --trailer "Reported-by:C O Mitter3 <committer3@example.com>" \
> > +             --trailer "Mentored-by:C O Mitter4 <committer4@example.com>" \
> > +             -m "hello" &&
> > +     git cat-file commit HEAD >commit.msg &&
> > +     sed -e "1,7d" commit.msg >actual &&
> > +     cat >expected <<-\EOF &&
> > +     Signed-off-by: C O Mitter <committer@example.com>
> > +     Signed-off-by: C O Mitter1 <committer1@example.com>
> > +     Helped-by: C O Mitter2 <committer2@example.com>
> > +     Reported-by: C O Mitter3 <committer3@example.com>
> > +     Mentored-by: C O Mitter4 <committer4@example.com>
> > +     EOF
> > +     test_cmp expected actual
> > +'
> > +
>
> How does this interact with cases where the user has configured
> "trailer.separators" to have a value that doesn't contain ":"?  I
> haven't tested, but my reading of git-interpret-trailers(1) is that if
> you supplied "=" instead that case would just work:
>
>     By default only : is recognized as a trailer separator, except that
>     = is always accepted on the command line for compatibility with
>     other git commands.
>

> So it would be good to update these tests so you test:
>
>  * For the --if-exists=add case at all, there's no tests for it
>    now. I.e. add some trailers manually to the commit (via -F or
>    whatever) and then see if they get added to, replacet etc.
>
>  * Ditto but for the user having configured trailer.separators (see the
>    test_config helper for how to set config in a test). I.e. if it's "="
>    does adding trailers work, how about if it's "=" on the CLI but the
>    config/commit message has ";" instead of ":" or something?
>

>  * Hrm, actually I think tweaking "-c trailer.ifexists" won't work at
>    all, since the CLI switch would override it. I honestly don't know,
>    but why not not supply it and keep the addIfDifferentNeighbor
>    default?
>
>    If it's essential that seems like a good test / documentation
>    addition...
>
>  * For the above -c ... case I can't think of a good way to deal with it
>    that doesn't involve pulling in git_trailer_config() into
>    git_commit_config(), but perhaps the least nasty way is to just set a
>    flag in git_commit_config() if we see a "trailer.ifexists" flag, and
>    if so don't provide "--if-exists=add", if there's no config (this
>    will include "git -c ... commit" we set provide "--if-exists=add" )
>    or as noted above, maybe we can skip the whole thing and use the
>    addIfDifferentNeighbor default.
>

> And, not needed for this patch but worth thinking about:
>
>  * We pass through --trailer to git-interpret-trailers, what should we
>    do about the other options? Should git-commit eventually support
>    --trailer-where and pass it along as --where to
>    git-interpret-trailers, or is "git -c trailer.where=... commit" good
>    enough?
>

>        Only the `--trailer` argument to
>        linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1] is supported. Other
>        pass-through switches may be added in the future, but currently
>        you'll need to pass arguments to
>        linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1] along as config, e.g. `git -c
>        trailer.where=start commit [...] --trailer=[...]`.
>

>  * We have a longer-term goal of having the .mailmap apply to trailers,
>    it would be nice if git-interpret-trailers had some fuzzy-matching to
>    check if the RHS of a trailer is a name/E-Mail pair, and if so did
>    stricter validation on it with the ident functions we use for fsck
>    etc. (that's copied & subtly different in several different places in
>    the codebase, unfortunately[1]).
>

> More thoughts:
>
>  * Having written all the above I checked how --signoff is implemented.
>
>    It seems to me to be a good idea to (at least for testing) convert
>    the --signoff trailer to your implementation. We have plenty of tests
>    for it, does migrating it over pass or fail those?
>

>  * I also agree with Junio that we shouldn't have a --fixed-by or
>    whatever and wouldn't add --signoff today, but it seems very useful
>    to me to have a shortcut like:
>
>        --trailer "Signed-off-by"
>
>    I.e. omitting the value, or:
>
>       --trailer "Signed-off-by="
>
>    Or some other thing we deem sufficiently useful/sane
>    syntax/unambiguous.n
>
>    Then the value would be provided by fmt_name(WANT_COMMITTER_IDENT)
>    just as we do in append_signoff() now. I think a *very common* case
>    for this would be something like:
>
>        git commit --amend -v --trailer "Reviewed-by"
>
>    And it would be useful to help that along and not have to do:
>
>        git commit --amend -v --trailer "Reviewed-by=$(git config user.name) <$(git config user.email)>"
>
>    Or worse yet, manually typo your name/e-mail address, as I'm sure I
>    and many others will inevitably do when using this option...
>