On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > It can be useful to invoke interpret-trailers for the > primary purpose of parsing existing trailers. But in that > case, we don't want to apply existing ifMissing or ifExists > rules from the config. Let's add a special mode where we > avoid applying those rules. Coupled with --only-trailers, > this gives us a reasonable parsing tool. I have the impression that the name is slightly misleading because 'only' just reduces the set. it does not enhance it. (Do we have a configuration that says "remove this trailer anytime"?) So maybe this is rather worded as 'exact-trailers' ?