From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>,
Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>,
Shourya Shukla <periperidip@gmail.com>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
Rafael Silva <rafaeloliveira.cs@gmail.com>,
ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] interpret-trailers: add own-identity option
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:20:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1rcctgj7.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42590e95deeece6ba65e0432c3a59746e717fee3.1616066156.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:15:55 +0000")
"ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
>
> Beacuse `git commit --trailer="Signed-off-by: \
> $(git config user.name) <$(git config user.email)>"`
> is difficult for users to add their own identities,
> so teach interpret-trailers a new option `--own-identity`
> which allow those trailers with no value add the user’s own
> identity. This will help the use of `commit --trailer` as
> easy as `--signoff`.
I have a suspicion that this is too narrowly focused to be useful in
practice, and I find that the proposed "--own-identity" is quite a
mouthful.
> +--own-identity::
> + Used with `--trailer`. Those trailers without value with the
> + `--own-identity` option all will add the user's own identity.
So, the assumption here is that the name of the trailer tag alone,
without the ':' separator, can identify which trailer the user is
talking about, and it can be distinguished from the tag name plus ':'
and nothing else which is calling for a trailer entry with an empty
string as its value?
OK.
The reason why this looks too narrowly focused on oneself alone to
be useful to me is because I often need to add various -by trailers
to incoming patches, and have a script to do exactly that (which
does not use interpret-trailers, as I do not think
interpret-trailers can accept a patch email as its input, and the
script predates interpret-trailers) but it will be useless if that
script were limited to add -by for myself.
Wouldn't it be a lot more useful if
git commit --trailer="Helped-by:@Ch.*Couder"
is expanded (note: I am not married to the syntax, but only for
illustration purposes, I am using "a value prefixed by @ triggers
the 'name expansion'" convention in this example. People can come
up with better convention) by finding an author or a committer whose
name matches the given pattern from "git log"? Then, instead of
git commit --own-identity --trailer=Signed-off-by
I can say
git commit --trailer=Signed-off-by:@gitster
and I can even add more than one, e.g.
git commit --trailer=Helped-by:@peff --trailer=Signed-off-by:@gitster
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-18 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 7:16 [PATCH] [GSOC] commit: provides multiple common signatures ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-11 15:03 ` Shourya Shukla
2021-03-12 11:41 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-11 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-12 12:01 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-12 13:22 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-12 15:54 ` [PATCH v2] [GSOC] commit: add trailer command ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-14 4:19 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-14 7:09 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-14 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-14 13:02 ` [PATCH v3] [GSOC] commit: add --trailer option ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-14 13:10 ` Rafael Silva
2021-03-14 14:13 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-14 15:58 ` [PATCH v4] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-14 23:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-15 1:27 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-15 4:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-15 5:14 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-15 3:24 ` [PATCH v5] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-15 5:33 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-15 5:41 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-15 5:46 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-15 6:35 ` [PATCH v6] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-15 8:02 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-15 8:21 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-15 9:08 ` [PATCH v7] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-15 10:00 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-15 10:14 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-15 11:32 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-16 5:37 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-16 8:35 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-15 13:07 ` [PATCH v8 0/2] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-15 13:07 ` [PATCH v8 1/2] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-16 12:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-17 2:01 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-17 8:08 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-17 13:54 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-15 13:07 ` [PATCH v8 2/2] interpret_trailers: for three options parse add warning ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-16 5:53 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-16 9:11 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-16 10:39 ` [PATCH v9] [GSOC] commit: add --trailer option ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-17 5:26 ` Shourya Shukla
2021-03-17 6:06 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-18 11:15 ` [PATCH v10 0/3] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-18 11:15 ` [PATCH v10 1/3] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-18 16:29 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-03-19 7:56 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-18 11:15 ` [PATCH v10 2/3] interpret-trailers: add own-identity option ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-18 16:45 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-03-19 8:04 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-18 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-03-19 9:33 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-19 15:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20 2:54 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-20 5:06 ` Jeff King
2021-03-20 5:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20 6:16 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-20 6:38 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-20 6:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20 8:43 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-18 11:15 ` [PATCH v10 3/3] commit: " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-18 13:47 ` [PATCH v10 0/3] [GSOC] commit: add --trailer option Christian Couder
2021-03-18 15:27 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-19 12:05 ` [PATCH v11] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-19 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20 13:41 ` [PATCH v12] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-22 4:24 ` [PATCH v13] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-22 7:43 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-22 10:23 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-22 21:34 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-23 6:11 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23 6:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-23 7:57 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-23 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-24 5:21 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23 10:35 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23 12:41 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-23 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-24 5:25 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-22 21:55 ` Christian Couder
2021-03-23 6:29 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23 13:55 ` [PATCH v14] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-15 4:38 ` [PATCH v4] " Junio C Hamano
2021-03-15 5:11 ` ZheNing Hu
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