From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:04:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] notes: don't indent empty lines
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQdXp0c+JYthvy+bbr6vLR7nq4pQY3w+CADUtzr+Ang4A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 1:56 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> > [1]: I suppose mechanical extraction of notes may be one such
> > scenario, allowing for simple-minded (not necessarily robust)
> > extraction mechanics; i.e. start extracting after the /^Notes:$/ line
> > and stop at the first line not indented with four blanks.
>
> Yup, that was what I had in mind.

In the general case, such an extraction mechanism would be far too
fragile since there are no guarantees that the commentary in the
"Notes:" section hasn't been hand-edited after patch-generation.
However, it's certainly possible that such a simple-minded extraction
technique might be applicable in some well-controlled development
pipeline somewhere.

If we are worried about that, then we can drop this patch series.