Re: Signed-off-by vs Reviewed-by

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.co.uk> writes:

I think the last message from Christian in the thread points at the right direction in the future.

The internal "parse the existing trailer block and manipulate it by adding, conditionally adding, replacing and deleting it" logic was done as an experimental "interpret-trailers" program, but polishing it (both its design and implementation) and integrating it to the front-line programs (e.g. "git commit") hasn't been done.

As to the last step of "integration", we cannot use short-and-sweet single letter options like '-s' (for sign-off) for each and every custom trailer different projects use for their own purpose (as there are only 26 of the lowercase ASCII alphabet letters), so the most general syntax for the option has to become "--trailer <arg>" or some variation of it, and at that point "-s" would look like a short-hand for "--trailer signed-off-by".