On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Parsing trailers out of a commit message is _mostly_ easy, but there >> area a lot of funny corner cases (e.g., heuristics for how many >> non-trailers must be present before a final paragraph isn't a trailer >> block anymore). The code in trailer.c already knows about these corner >> cases, but there's no way to access it from the command line. >> >> This series teaches interpret-trailers to parse and output just the >> trailers. So now you can do: >> >> $ git log --format=%B -1 8d44797cc91231cd44955279040dc4a1ee0a797f | >> git interpret-trailers --parse >> Signed-off-by: Hartmut Henkel <henkel@xxxxxxx> >> Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@xxxxxxxxx> >> Acked-by: Matthias Rüster <matthias.ruester@xxxxxxxxx> > > Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. > > The above example made me wonder if we also want a format specifier > to do the above without piping, but it turns out that we already > have "log --format=%(trailers)", so we are good ;-) > I was going to say, I thought we had a way to get trailers for a commit via the pretty format, since that is what i used in the past. Thanks, Jake
