On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 at 15:19, Christophe Lyon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 6/15/26 15:46, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc wrote: > > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-interpret-trailers says: > > > > When reading trailers, there can be no whitespace before or inside the > > <key>, but any number of regular space and tab characters are allowed > > between the <key> and the separator. There can be whitespaces before, > > inside or after the <value>. The <value> may be split over multiple > > lines with each subsequent line starting with at least one whitespace, > > like the "folding" in RFC 822. > > > > Formatting these Git trailers correctly ensures they can be used with > > git-interpret-trailers and found with a simple 'git log --grep' query, > > without having to match a mix of correct and incorrect forms using a > > regex. This is especially important for Signed-off-by: because the > > DCO sign-off is legally significant and it makes things harder to > > check if you use the wrong form of the tag. > > > > Please ensure that all trailers in Git commit messages are hyphenated, > > e.g. "Co-authored-by:" not "Co-authored by:", and especially not > > "Signed off by:" > > Is this something we can / want to add to > contrib/gcc-changelog/git_check_commit.py ?
That's probably a good idea.
