Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] doc: trailer: examples: avoid the word "message" by itself

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LALinus Arver <linusa@google.com>

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Jun 15, 2023, 03:03 UTC

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

>>   $ git config trailer.sign.key "Signed-off-by"
>>   $ cat msg.txt
>>   subject

>> -message
>> +Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

> I am not sure this change is clarifying anything. If you want
> something clearer for "internal body text inside the commit message",
> you could perhaps just use "body" or "body text".

> I am not against using such latin words, but then why only in the body
> and not in the subject too? And if it's used in the subject too, then
> I am not sure it will make it easy for users to understand that the
> example is using a simple commit message.