Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA

From	Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA
Date	2017-01-19 23:10 +0100
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> > I didn't know about trailers before. As I undestand it, I could use
> > "Tested-by" as the key, and the commit subject as the value. This list
> > then could be parsed and brought into proper output shape. It would
> > simplify the subject parsing, but most things my AWK script currently
> > does would still need to stay or to be reimplemented (extracting names
> > from tags, creating arrays of tags given by $name). Am I correct?
> 
> That is not exactly what I had in mind.  I was wondering if we can
> do without any external script, implementing the logic you added
> inside shortlog with an extra option that triggers the whole thing,
> which may call into the same trailers API as used by the
> interpret-trailers command to do the parsing and picking out parts.

Sorry for being unclear. That's what I meant with "or to be
reimplemented". I should have added "in C".

I am afraid this also requires more time than I am willing to
spend on this issue. Seems my hack is going to stay for a while here.

However, thank you for your time and assisting me with pointers!

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Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-01-19 21:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> - 2017-01-19 22:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-01-19 23:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA Jeff King <peff@peff.net> - 2017-01-19 22:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> - 2017-01-20 00:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-01-20 01:10 +0100
        Re: [RFC for GIT] pull-request: add praise to people doing QA Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> - 2017-01-20 01:20 +0100

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