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From: Maxwell Bernstein <tekk.nolagi@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Max Bernstein via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Max Bernstein" <donotemailthisaddress@bernsteinbear.com>,
	"Max Bernstein" <max@bernsteinbear.com>,
	"Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Tan" <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] trailer: allow spaces in tokens
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:03:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CM9DZ4Z18PY9.1T2O8U54X66FD@cedar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk075qyq0.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 9:54 AM PDT, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> So, the updated code mistook the body of the message that is not a
> sign-off, because there is a colon on the line, the line does not
> begin with the colon, and everything before the colon is an alnum or
> a whitespace, so squashed the paragraph break before the real
> trailer block and the last line of the body and made it a body-less
> commit log message?

I agree that it is not ideal, and I'm not sure how to fix it. This commit
probably shouldn't go in as-is; I modified the test in order to demonstrate
this problem.

> This might be a good demonstration of why it is a mistaken design to
> allow whitespaces, which may steer us toward fixing the documentation?
>
> I dunno.  What do others think?

I think allowing whitespace is good at least for the Phabricator project, which
despite being dead, has a number of existing users and existing commits. It
unfortunately has a "Differential revision" trailer with whitespace.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-18 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-18  7:06 [PATCH] trailer: allow spaces in tokens Max Bernstein via GitGitGadget
2022-08-18  7:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Max Bernstein via GitGitGadget
2022-08-18 16:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-18 17:56     ` Jonathan Tan
2022-08-18 19:03     ` Maxwell Bernstein [this message]
2022-08-18 20:46       ` Christian Couder
2022-08-18 21:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-19  4:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-19 10:29             ` Christian Couder
2022-08-22 13:58               ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-08-23 14:06               ` [PATCH] Documentation: clarify whitespace rules for trailers Christian Couder
2022-08-24 18:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-25 11:59                   ` Christian Couder
2022-08-25 16:20                     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-30 10:50                     ` [PATCH v2] " Christian Couder
2022-08-30 17:20                       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-18 16:48 ` [PATCH] trailer: allow spaces in tokens Junio C Hamano
2022-08-18 17:52   ` Jonathan Tan
2022-08-18 17:58     ` Junio C Hamano

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