Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In commit 1462450 ("trailer: allow non-trailers in trailer block", > 2016-10-21), functionality was added (and tested [1]) to allow > non-trailer lines in trailer blocks, as long as those blocks contain at > least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer, and consists of at > least 25% trailers. The documentation was updated to mention this new > functionality, but did not mention "user-configured trailer". > > Further update the documentation to also mention "user-configured > trailer". > > [1] "with non-trailer lines mixed with a configured trailer" in > t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Yes, mentioning a trailer in a Git config will cause interpret-trailers > to treat it similarly to a Git-generated trailer (in that its presence > causes a block partially consisting of trailers to be considered a > trailer block). See the commit message above for a test case that > verifies that. > > I took a look at the documentation, and it wasn't completely documented, > so here is a patch to correct that. Looks sensible. Thanks. > Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt > index e99bda6..09074c7 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt > @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ will be added before the new trailer. > > Existing trailers are extracted from the input message by looking for > a group of one or more lines that (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contains at > -least one Git-generated trailer and consists of at least 25% trailers. > +least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consists of at > +least 25% trailers. > The group must be preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines. > The group must either be at the end of the message or be the last > non-whitespace lines before a line that starts with '---'. Such three