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Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: Add ability to cc: any "trailers" from
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:56:34 -0700
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On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 10:54 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Many commits have various forms of trailers similar to
> >      "Acked-by: Name <address>" and "Reported-by: Name <address>"
> > 
> > Add the ability to cc these trailers when using git send-email.
> I thought you were asking what we call these "<token> followed by
> <colon>" at the end of the log message, and "footers or trailers"
> was the answer.
> 
> I do not have a strong objection against limiting to "-by:" lines;
> for one thing, it would automatically avoid having to worry about
> "Bug-ID:" and other trailers that won't have e-mail address at all.
> 
> But if you are _only_ picking up "-by:" lines, then calling this
> option "trailers" is way too wide and confusing.  I do not think
> there is any specific name for "-by:" lines, though.  Perhaps you
> would need to invent some name that has "-by" as a substring.
> 
> "any-by"?  or just "by"?  I dunno.

Signatures?