From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:47:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] interpret-trailers: add --where, --if-exists, --if-missing
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0bwb+Zeqn8Xg24J_Z639NiT3Awjzstk6o_L-Q+Wh+c0g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170712134646.17179-1-bonzini@gnu.org>

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> These options are useful to experiment with "git interpret-trailers"
> without having to tinker with .gitconfig.  It can also be useful in the
> oddball case where you want a different placement for the trailer.
>
> The case that stimulated the creation of the patches was configuring
>
>      trailer.signed-off-by.where = end
>
> and then wanting "--where before" when a patch author forgets his
> Signed-off-by and provides it in a separate email.

Maybe you could have used the following to temporarily override the config:

git -c trailer.signed-off-by.where=before interpret-trailers ...

But it could be helpful and more straightforward to provide the
options you implemented.

I am not sure also if --where should override both "trailer.where" and
"trailer.<token>.where", or if should just override the former.