Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] [GSOC] interpret-trailer: easy parse trailer value

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> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 9:58 AM ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
> >
> > The original `-trailer` adding some trailers like
>
> s/-trailer/--trailer/
>
> > "Signed-off-by:C O <Mister@email.com>" is often too
> > verbose and error-prone.
>
> The 'trailer.<token>.command' config option can already be used to
> help with that, for example:
>
> -------
> $ git config trailer.sign.key "Signed-off-by: "
> $ git config trailer.sign.ifexists replace
> $ git config trailer.sign.command "git log --author='\$ARG' -1
> --format='format:%aN <%aE>'"
> $ git interpret-trailers --trailer sign=Linus<<EOF
> subject
>
> body
> EOF
> subject
>
> body
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> -------
>
> So even without this patch, after your first patch that implements
> `git commit --trailer ...`, it should be easy to setup something less
> verbose and less error-prone.