Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> 9:I want to mention about Signed-off-by: here. >> ... >> This seems a bit weird. > > This is because the "I want to mention" block has 100% trailer lines > (since its only line contains a colon). We could forbid spaces in > trailer field names, but as you said [1], it might be better to allow > them since users might include them. That merely means that the implementation of the wish expressed in [1] was overly loose and needs a bit of tightening, isn't it? > The original sequencer.c interpreted this block as not a trailer > block, because it only accepted alphanumeric characters or '-' before > the colon (and no spaces) - hence the difference in behavior. That sounds more sensible to me. Would there be an easy way to still allow misspelled "Thanks to:" but not be fooled by an obvious nonsense like this example, without going deep into natural language processing? If not, we may want to tighten it back. > > [1] <xmqqbmyhr4vt.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>