From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:07:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Trailers Containing Underscore or Dot Characters
Message-ID: <xmqqy11hjqnk.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Zzb7aI2C2uh_nwuc@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> The second thing we should be fixing is that git-interpret-trailers(1)
> allows us to add invalid trailers:
>
>     $ touch file
>     $ git interpret-trailers --in-place file --trailer 'Valid-trailer: bar'
>     $ git interpret-trailers --parse file
>     Valid-trailer: bar
>     $ git interpret-trailers --in-place file --trailer 'Invalid_trailer: bar'
>     $ git interpret-trailers --parse file
>     $ cat file
>
>     Valid-trailer: bar
>     Invalid_trailer: bar:
>
> After the second invocation of git-interpret-trailers(1) it is unable to
> find any trailers anymore due to the bogus format of the second trailer
> line.

A good point.
Thanks.