linux-kernel - Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA

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Message-ID: <CA+P7+xojtk4QD2rtAy90ytHCpuaSAOy2SE-aXC4A863N020Efw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:05:26 -0800
From:   Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@...il.com>
To:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Git mailing list <git@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com> wrote:
> As to the implementation, I am wondering if we can make this somehow
> work well with the "trailers" code we already have, instead of
> inventing yet another parser of trailers.
>
> In its current shape, "interpret-trailers" focuses on "editing" an
> existing commit log message to tweak the trailer lines.  That mode
> of operation would help amending and rebasing, and to do that it
> needs to parse the commit log message, identify trailer blocks,
> parse out each trailer lines, etc.
>
> There is no fundamental reason why its output must be an edited
> original commit log message---it should be usable as a filter that
> picks trailer lines of the selected trailer type, like "Tested-By",
> etc.

I have been looking at ways to use the interpret-trailers as a way to
filter commits and print out trailers, and this sort of feature would
be useful to me if it were generic. (and then pull-request could use
the generic interface to grab the data and then parse it into a praise
format)

Thanks,
Jake