On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 10:54 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Many commits have various forms of trailers similar to > > "Acked-by: Name <address>" and "Reported-by: Name <address>" > > > > Add the ability to cc these trailers when using git send-email. > I thought you were asking what we call these "<token> followed by > <colon>" at the end of the log message, and "footers or trailers" > was the answer. > > I do not have a strong objection against limiting to "-by:" lines; > for one thing, it would automatically avoid having to worry about > "Bug-ID:" and other trailers that won't have e-mail address at all. > > But if you are _only_ picking up "-by:" lines, then calling this > option "trailers" is way too wide and confusing. I do not think > there is any specific name for "-by:" lines, though. Perhaps you > would need to invent some name that has "-by" as a substring. > > "any-by"? or just "by"? I dunno. Signatures?