In [1], Junio explained a possible redesign of trailer support in
interpret-trailers and cherry-pick, something along these lines:
1. Support non-trailers and multi-line trailers in interpret-trailers
2. Create a helper function so that the new interpretation can be used
elsewhere (e.g. in sequencer)
3. Modify "Signed-off-by" and "(cherry picked by" to use the helper
function
My current plans for step 1 and step 2 require relatively significant
refactoring in trailer.c, so I thought that I should send out a patch
set covering only step 1 first for discussion, before continuing with my
work on top of this patch set.
Support for steps 2 and 3, including my original use case of being
looser in the definition of a trailer when invoking "cherry-pick -x"
(and thus suppressing the insertion of a newline) will come in a
subsequent patch set.
[1] Message ID <[email protected]>
Jonathan Tan (5):
trailer: use singly-linked list, not doubly
trailer: streamline trailer item create and add
trailer: make args have their own struct
trailer: allow non-trailers in trailer block
trailer: support values folded to multiple lines
Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 10 +-
t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh | 174 +++++++++
trailer.c | 638 +++++++++++++++----------------
3 files changed, 480 insertions(+), 342 deletions(-)
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