John Passaro <john.a.passaro@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> More importantly, I doubt that many trailers we commonly see in the >> comit objects, like "Acked-by", "Reviewed-by", or even "CC", are >> applicable in the context of tags. So I am ambivalent. > > A couple of words on the motivation here. First, by way of --list > --format="%(trailer)", > git-tag arguably has read-side support for trailers already; adding write > support seems pretty reasonable. Second, even though not all the trailers > broadly used for commits are an obvious fit for tags, some still are - > "Signed-off-by" for one would seem plausibly useful. In my team's usage (which > inspired this change), tag trailers have emerged as a convenient way to pass > machine-readable metadata to CICD. That is a good thing to describe in the proposed log message. If a reviewer feels puzzled by a commit and did not get the motivation from the proposed log message, there is a good chance that the motivation is not well described to help future developers who find this commit in "git log" output. Thanks.
