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

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

As to the implementation, I am wondering if we can make this somehow
work well with the "trailers" code we already have, instead of
inventing yet another parser of trailers.

In its current shape, "interpret-trailers" focuses on "editing" an
existing commit log message to tweak the trailer lines.  That mode
of operation would help amending and rebasing, and to do that it
needs to parse the commit log message, identify trailer blocks,
parse out each trailer lines, etc.

There is no fundamental reason why its output must be an edited
original commit log message---it should be usable as a filter that
picks trailer lines of the selected trailer type, like "Tested-By",
etc.

I have been looking at ways to use the interpret-trailers as a way to
filter commits and print out trailers, and this sort of feature would
be useful to me if it were generic. (and then pull-request could use
the generic interface to grab the data and then parse it into a praise
format)

Thanks,
Jake