From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 09:44:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] shortlog: match commit trailers with --ident
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTqfd4QezR09QwUb_7viML_4LB5ChNF_eXVCsbGHLaDMQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151229075013.GA9191@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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