Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? Helped-by: and Reported-by: are often written by the author of the patch and not by those who helped or reported, so calling them signatures imply the author is forging them, too ;-) I dunno. Any name that hints that this applies only to the trailers that ends with "-by" is fine but "Signatures-by" does not sound very grammatical.