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Re: [PATCH 14/14] shortlog: match commit trailers with --ident

From
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Jan 4, 2016, 09:44 UTC
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> This doesn't leave us many syntactic "outs" for adding new ident types
> in the future (nor can you match a trailer called "Author"). I guess we
> could call this "--ident=trailer:reviewed-by" to be more precise, but
> it's more annoying to type. Perhaps we could consider that the
> "official" syntax, and DWIM "--ident=foo" to "--ident=trailer:foo", with
> the caveat that it may change in the future. I dunno.

Would anyone ever want to be able to specify multiple trailers for counting? That is:

    --ident=trailer:helped-by,reviewed-by
or
    --ident=trailer:helped-by --ident=trailer:reviewed-by
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Message 28 of 29 in “counting trailers with shortlogs”
  1. 0/14 counting trailers with shortlogsJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  2. 01/14 move string functions out of git-compat-utilJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  3. 02/14 log: refactor add_header to drop some magic numbersJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  4. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  5. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  6. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  7. 03/14 strutil: add skip_prefix_icaseJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  8. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  9. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  10. 04/14 shortlog: use skip_prefix_icase to parse "Author" linesJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  11. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  12. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  13. 05/14 shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdinJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  14. 06/14 shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printerJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  15. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  16. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016
  17. 07/14 shortlog: optimize "--summary" modeJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  18. 08/14 shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalizationJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  19. 09/14 shortlog: optimize out useless string listJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  20. 10/14 shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident"Jeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  21. 11/14 shortlog: allow grouping by committer identJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  22. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  23. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016
  24. 12/14 trailer: factor out config readingJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  25. 13/14 trailer: add interface for parsing commit trailersJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  26. 14/14 shortlog: match commit trailers with --identJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  27. Jeff KingDec 29, 2015
  28. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  29. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016

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