On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:10:13PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote: > * In your list > > > Fixes: > > Reported-by: > > Suggested-by: > > Improved-by: > > Acked-by: > > Reviewed-by: > > Tested-by: > > Signed-off-by: > > and I might add > > Cherry-picked-from: > Reverts: > > if one were to phrase that as a footer/pseudoheader, observe that > there are only two kinds of these: footers that contain identities, > and footers that contain references to commits.
I think people put other things in, too. For example, cross-referencing bug-tracker ids. In fact, if I saw "fixes: XXX", I would expect the latter to be a tracker id. People do this a lot with GitHub issues, because GitHub will auto-close issue 123 if a commit with "fixes #123" is pushed to master. Because of the "#", no pseudo-header is needed, but I have also seen people use the footer style (I don't have any examples on-hand, though). That being said, in your examples: > So why not support these use-cases? We could have something like > footer.foo.* configuration, e.g. > > [footer "fixes"] > type = commit > suggest = true > [footer "acked-by"] > type = identity you could easily have "type=text" to handle arbitrary text. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
