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 Message-ID: <ad10ce86-9191-435e-83a3-8630c661a1a7@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f90b2357-f13a-44da-42b7-c439f033f218@FreeBSD.org> References: <f90b2357-f13a-44da-42b7-c439f033f218@FreeBSD.org>
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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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