On 2019-10-10 at 08:49:23, Toon Claes wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, I'd agree that we should start first with a generic trailer line.
> 
> IIUC you are suggesting something like this?
> 
>  git commit --trailer="Co-authored-by: <coauthor>"
> 
> I really want to consider this, but I do not understand how that improves
> the user experience compared to adding that trailer manually when typing the
> commit message in your $EDITOR?

The --trailer option to git interpret-trailers knows how to interpret
configuration options and expand them.  For example, you could
abbreviate "Co-authored-by" as "cab", and if you used that alias, you
could write "git commit --trailer='cab=peff'" and then have your command
look up "peff" and find the proper identification either from your repo
or from your Git hosting solution of choice (or wherever).
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