On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.kel...@intel.com> writes:
>
>> Git interpret-trailers will not recognize this as a trailer block
>> because it doesn't have any standard git tags within it. Would it be ok
>> to augment the trailer interpretation to say that if we have over 75%
>> trailers in the block that we accept it even if it doesn't have any real
>> recognized tags?
>
> I thought the documented way to do this is to configure one of your
> custom trailer as such.  Jonathan?
>

That would be fine then, if that works.

>>   pretty: add %bT format for displaying trailers of a commit message
>
> Are %(...) taken already?  In longer term, it would be nice if we
> can unify the --pretty formats and for-each-ref formats, so it is
> probably better if we avoid adding any new short ones to the former.
>

Oh, I hadn't considered adding a longer one. I'll rework this to use
longer ones.

> We have %s and %b so that we can reconstruct the whole thing by
> using both.  It is unclear how %bT fits in this picture.  I wonder
> if we also need another placeholder that expands to the body of the
> message without the trailer---otherwise the whole set would become
> incoherent, no?
>

I'm not entirely sure what to do here. I just wanted a way to easily
format "just the trailers" of a message. We could add something that
formats just the non-trailers, that's not too difficult. Not really
sure what I'd call it though.

Thanks,
Jake

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