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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git cherry-pick -x: missing blank line before the "cherry picked from commit" line
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 02:15:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221216011553.GE7846@zira.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD1G++GvNxCVdwDqSm4P3SseyOWNh2jKBZ4jm-OTn2Vsmg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2022-12-05 13:56:02 +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 4:49 PM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> > I think that what could be interesting there is a
> > trailer.<token>.separators option (assuming that one can
> > use an empty list of separators to disable a token), but
> > that doesn't exist.
> 
> There is the trailer.separators config option. I am not sure if it
> disables trailers completely though if it is empty. If it doesn't,
> that could be an interesting feature to implement for people who don't
> use trailers at all (except for lines added by cherry-pick).

I have not tried yet, but the drawback is that it could be used
only if trailers are not used at all.

> A trailer.<token>.separators option that disables some <token> when
> empty could be another interesting idea, but it might have drawbacks.
> For example you might disable the "note" token, but then find that
> people sometimes use "notes:" or "NB:" or "PS:" or other things like
> that at the end of their commit messages.

Yes, or "References:" or "https:". Like that, which has just happened
to me: :-(

[...]
    References:
      https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/mpfr/2022-10/msg00001.html
      https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/mpfr/2022-10/msg00027.html
      https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-bugs/2022-October/005200.html
    (cherry picked from commit 277faface2023449c91c1751630e760d136ae619)

Even when one knows the issue, it is too easy to forget it.

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-02 14:11 git cherry-pick -x: missing blank line before the "cherry picked from commit" line Vincent Lefevre
2022-12-02 16:41 ` Phillip Wood
2022-12-02 17:01   ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-12-04 15:13     ` Phillip Wood
2022-12-04 15:49       ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-12-05 12:56         ` Christian Couder
2022-12-16  1:15           ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]

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