Re: [PATCH v10 11/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'

From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: admin@game-point.net
Cc: christian.couder@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 11/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 20:54:38 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140501.205438.1173327839304856205.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <535FA83B.3010008@game-point.net>

From: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>

> On 29/04/2014 12:47, Christian Couder wrote:
>>> Also, if there were no current branch name because you're committing
>>> in a
>>> detached head state, it would be nice if you could have some logic to
>>> determine that, and instead write the trailer as:
>>>          Made-on-branch: (detached HEAD: AB12CD34)
>>
>> You may need to write a small script for that.
>> Then you just need the "trailer.m-o-b.command" config value to point
>> to your script.
>>
>>> ... or whatever.  And also how about some logic to be able to say that
>>> if
>>> you're committing to the "master" branch, the trailer doesn't get
>>> inserted
>>> at all?
>>
>> You can script that too.
> 
> But it would be nicer if the logic were built-in, then you wouldn't
> have to share some script with your work colleagues. :-)

The above logic is very specific to your workflow. For example some
people might a "Made-on-branch: " trailer only when they are on real
branches except "dev" and "master".

Best,
Christian.