Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2017, #01; Wed, 4)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2017, 08:46 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqr2ujb8rm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171004083111.5y7su63scydg2yzk@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>>  - pretty.c: delimit "%(trailers)" arguments with ","
>> 
>>  "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element,
>>  %(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log
>>  message.
>> 
>>  Will merge to 'next'.
>
> I think we want the first patch of this series to graduate before v2.15,
> even if the rest doesn't make it. It tweaks a new syntax introduced
> earlier in this cycle by jk/trailers-parse. If we ship without the
> tweak, then we'll have to support the colon-delimiter to remain
> backwards-compatible.

Yeah, thanks for reminding me. I actually was hoping that this will prove to be stable enough by the time -rc1 gets tagged, but yes, the bottom one looks innocuous/safe enough and should be fast-tracked to 'master' soonish.

Thanks.