Re: [PATCH] doc: shortlog: put back trailer paragraphs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2026, 19:03 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1pj3ynli.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20260202182421.GA3421838@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

Show 16 quoted lines

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 06:59:42PM +0100, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com wrote:
>
>> 47beb37b (shortlog: match commit trailers with --group, 2020-09-27)
>> added the `trailer` bullet point with three paragraphs.[1] Later,
>> 3dc95e09 (shortlog: support arbitrary commit format `--group`s,
>> 2022-10-24) put the single-paragraph bullet point about `format` right
>> after the first paragraph about `trailer`. That meant that the second
>> and third paragraphs for `trailer` got moved to `format`.
>> 
>> Move the two paragraphs back to `trailer`. We now also need one blank
>> line before the final bullet point so that it does not get joined with
>> the second bullet point.
>
> Yeah, the change in 3dc95e09 was obviously wrong. The results look good
> here, via both doc-diff output and just eyeballing the generated .html
> file. Thanks for catching this.

Thanks, both.