On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/10/2017 12:30, Christian Couder wrote:

>> Did you try using `--where end --if-exists replace --trailer "$sob"`?
>
> Yes, it's a different behavior; "--if-exists replace" matches on others'
> SoB as well, so it would eat the original author's SoB if I didn't have one.
>
> So "move" does get it wrong for
>
>     Signed-off-by: Me
>     Signed-off-by: Friend
>
> (Me gets moved last, which may not be what you want) but "replace" gets
> it wrong in the arguably more common case of
>
>     Signed-off-by: Friend
>
> which is damaged to just "Signed-off-by: Me".

Ok. I think you might want something called for example
"replaceIfIdenticalClose" where "IdenticalClose" means: "there is a
trailer with the same (<token>, <value>) pair above or below the line
where the replaced trailer will be put when ignoring trailers with a
different <token>".

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