Re: [PATCH] git send-email: include [anything]-by: signatures

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On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:03:52PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:01:49AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > > The question of course is the first point Peff raised.  I am not
> > > sure offhand what the right per-project customization interface
> > > would be.  A starting point might be something like:
> > > 
> > > 	--cc-trailer=signed-off-by,acked-by,reviewed-by
> > 
> > tested-by, reported-by ...
> 
> Yeah, I think having the list customizable is nice, but not allowing
> some pattern matching seems unfriendly, as it requires the user to
> enumerate a potentially long list.
> 
> > > 	--cc-trailer='*-by'
> > > 
> > > and an obvious configuration variable that gives the default for it.
> > > That would eventually allow us not to special case any fixed set of
> > > trailers like S-o-b like the current code does, which would be a big
> > > plus.
> > 
> > What bothers me is that git normally uses gawk based patterns,
> > but send-email is in perl so it has a different syntax for regexp.
> > What do you suggest?  Make a small binary to do the matching for us?
> 
> Would fnmatch-style globbing (like "*-by") be enough? That should be
> easy to do in perl.
> 
> -Peff

If you mean only support * - that would be easy.
Once you get into bracket expressions it gets messy quickly
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05

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