Re: [PATCH 0/5] make interpret-trailers useful for parsing

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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Parsing trailers out of a commit message is _mostly_ easy, but there
area a lot of funny corner cases (e.g., heuristics for how many
non-trailers must be present before a final paragraph isn't a trailer
block anymore).  The code in trailer.c already knows about these corner
cases, but there's no way to access it from the command line.

This series teaches interpret-trailers to parse and output just the
trailers. So now you can do:

  $ git log --format=%B -1 8d44797cc91231cd44955279040dc4a1ee0a797f |
    git interpret-trailers --parse
  Signed-off-by: Hartmut Henkel [off-list ref]
  Helped-by: Stefan Beller [off-list ref]
  Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow [off-list ref]
  Acked-by: Matthias Rüster [off-list ref]

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.

The above example made me wonder if we also want a format specifier
to do the above without piping, but it turns out that we already
have "log --format=%(trailers)", so we are good ;-)

I was going to say, I thought we had a way to get trailers for a
commit via the pretty format, since that is what i used in the past.

Thanks,
Jake