From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-interpret-trailers and period characters in the key
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:37:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa58rn1ww.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0SxKOYFegN=DnmyY5RW7dMqyohGzeCfoVLNOtwjY2APA@mail.gmail.com> (Christian Couder's message of "Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:07:27 +0200")
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com> writes:
> Having a config option or something to be a bit more lenient and
> accept more characters in trailer keys could help some people, and it
> might not be very difficult to implement. On the other hand if people
> start to have a lot of weird trailers around, and abuse the config
> option to make it too lenient, then it could be a bad thing in general
> as more and more regular text might be interpreted as trailers.
>
> I also agree that our doc about this could be improved. Patches welcome.
Thanks for a concise summary.
I agree that loosening the rule, or even adding an option to loosen
the rule, is detrimental to the ecosystem at large, and
documentation can be improved.
In retrospect, I supsect that it even was a mistake to special case
the #BUGID syntax when the trailer was pretty much about lines that
look similar to E-Mail-Header: fields. Let's not make it worse.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-07 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-01 13:27 git-interpret-trailers and period characters in the key Brendan Jackman
2025-04-03 11:07 ` Christian Couder
2025-04-07 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-03-30 21:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] doc: interpret-trailers: explain key format kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-03-30 21:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: interpret-trailers: stop fixating on RFC 822 kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-03-30 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-30 22:56 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-03-30 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-30 21:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: interpret-trailers: explain key format kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-03-30 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-30 22:23 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-03-31 12:35 ` Ben Knoble
2026-03-31 16:03 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] " kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] doc: interpret-trailers: stop fixating on RFC 822 kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] doc: interpret-trailers: replace “lines” with “metadata” kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] doc: interpret-trailers: use “metadata” in Name as well kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] doc: interpret-trailers: not just for commit messages kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] doc: interpret-trailers: explain the format after the intro kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] doc: interpret-trailers: explain key format kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] doc: interpret-trailers: add key format example kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] doc: interpret-trailers: commit to “trailer block” term kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] doc: intepret-trailers: document comment line treatment kristofferhaugsbakk
2026-04-13 13:26 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-04-13 15:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-08 15:03 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-05-08 15:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] doc: interpret-trailers: explain key format Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-05-11 2:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-11 19:23 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-05-24 12:41 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-05-26 21:34 ` Ben Knoble
2026-05-26 21:42 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-05-26 21:45 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
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