Re: [PATCH] interpret-trailers: obey scissors lines

Brian Malehorn [off-list ref] writes:

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The mention of "'commit -v -s' works that way, too" was my attempt
to justify why it is OK to make this change unconditionally to
intepret-trailers, but I am still not 100% convinced with that
reasoning (or your original log message) that it is a safe thing to
do.  It is not like its sole purpose is to serve as GIT_EDITOR for
the "git commit" command.

Yup, this is a heuristic and it will sometimes hit false.  But a far
more grievous heuristic is ignoring all lines that begin with '#', yet
we do that anyway for its convenience in editing commit messages.  Since
we already *partially* honor commit message syntax in
interpret-trailers, we might as well *completely* honor it by parsing
cut lines as well.  At least, that's my reasoning.

I was primarily wondering if we want to protect this behind an
option to "interpret-trailers", instead of making this change
unconditionally.  But your above reasoning makes sense to me.

Thanks.