Re: [PATCH v6] [GSOC] trailer: add new trailer.<token>.cmd config option

>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:47 AM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 1:26 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > > I would say it would behave as if:
> > > >
> > > > $ git interpret-trailers --trailer Foo= input-file
> > >
> > > Hmmm.  That means that the descrition in the original is quite
> > > misleading, no?
> >
> > Yeah, I agree it is misleading and difficult to understand.
> >
> > > If it said
> > >
> > >         ... as if "--trailer" "<token>=<value>" arguments were given
> > >         to "git interpret-trailers" command near the beginning of
> > >         its command line
> > >
> > > then that may be closer description of the command line you are
> > > forming, but as its written (with or without my attempt to clarify
> > > above), it was impossible to infer that you are behaving as if
> > > another --trailer option (with <token>=<value> as its value) was
> > > given.
> >
> > I agree.
>
> By the way it might be better to first have a patch that clarifies the
> existing documentation of ".command", before the patch that adds
> ".cmd". This way the first patch that only clarifies the documentation
> could be backported to maintenance branches of old releases.