On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:18:19AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > 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"?) No, I think you can only add trailers via ifExists or ifMissing. I actually called this --no-config originally, because to me it meant "do not apply config". But the processing applies also to --trailer arguments no the command line, which is how I ended up with --only-existing. > So maybe this is rather worded as 'exact-trailers' ? I'm not fond of that, as it's vague about which exact trailers we're talking about. I also thought of something like --verbatim, but I'd worry that would seem to conflict with --normalize. I dunno. All of the names seem not quite descriptive enough to me. -Peff
