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

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:02:58 +0100
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Cc:     git@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA


> > I didn't know about trailers before. As I undestand it, I could use
> > "Tested-by" as the key, and the commit subject as the value. This list
> > then could be parsed and brought into proper output shape. It would
> > simplify the subject parsing, but most things my AWK script currently
> > does would still need to stay or to be reimplemented (extracting names
> > from tags, creating arrays of tags given by $name). Am I correct?
> 
> That is not exactly what I had in mind.  I was wondering if we can
> do without any external script, implementing the logic you added
> inside shortlog with an extra option that triggers the whole thing,
> which may call into the same trailers API as used by the
> interpret-trailers command to do the parsing and picking out parts.

Sorry for being unclear. That's what I meant with "or to be
reimplemented". I should have added "in C".

I am afraid this also requires more time than I am willing to
spend on this issue. Seems my hack is going to stay for a while here.

However, thank you for your time and assisting me with pointers!


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