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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:20:32 -0500
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        "John Mehr via freebsd-git" <freebsd-git@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Thoughts on git commit mail
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, at 6:59 PM, John Baldwin wrote:

> 2) I would drop the first sentence.  It's a bit redundant to list
>    the committer an extra time.  The branch name is useful, but it
>    might be nicer as metadata if possible, e.g.:
> 
> Branch: main

When you say meta-data, do you mean email headers?

Anything we can put into machine parsable headers will greatly
help anyone doing email parsing. This is what FreshPorts has done
for 20 years. I'm thinking X- headers.

This isn't so much only for FreshPorts, but for anything else which
may come along.

-- 
  Dan Langille
  dan@langille.org



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