From: Linus Arver Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 03:03:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] doc: trailer: examples: avoid the word "message" by itself Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Christian Couder 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. I can't remember why I didn't just use "body text", which I agree is better than the (albeit famous) Latin phrase. It's shorter, simpler, and also search-friendly (for cases where the user is not sure of exactly which word they want to search for). Updated in v4 to use "body text".