Re: [PATCH v4 11/11] doc: interpret-trailers: document comment line treatment

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 6, 2026, at 13:52, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> Hi Kristoffer,
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 5:22 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email protected]>
>>
>> Comment lines have always been ignored but this is not documented.
>>
>> The primary motivation here is to reasonably complete in the
>
> "to be"?

Thanks. I keep staring at the text but in the end you need someone else
to read it as well.

>>[snip]
>> Notes (series):
>>     v4:
>>     • Msg: rewrite motivation for documenting this. The motivation is
>>       not super solid, but it reflects my own ambiguity on the matter,
>>       so to speak; I think we ought to be very thorough about
>>       documenting the format, while making sure to not use the main text
>>       to exhaustively lay it all out. The information should be
>>       somewhere in this doc. But not in your face.
>
> I agree we should be thorough but not in your face, esp. based on the
> work Julia Evans has done in the past around Git documentation.
> Thanks!

Thanks. I’m glad that I was able to communicate that. ;)

>
>>[snip]
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