Re: git am and duplicate signatures

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2016, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7fay3wux.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1472581284.5512.117.camel@perches.com>

Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:

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> On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 11:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
>> 
>> > 
>> > On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 10:41 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > Maybe something like traces or chains.
>> > Or "taggers" or "tagged-bys"
>> I am afraid that you are way too late; the ship has already sailed a
>> few years ago, if not earlier, I think.
>
> What's the ship's name?  Is it footers or trailers?

I think we casually call them footers (as they are counter-part to "headers"), or trailers (probably more official as that is half of the name of the subsystem that is supposed to deal with them).