Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 11:47:30AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 02:21:24AM +0000, M Hickford wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 00:59, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 07:57:48AM +0000, M Hickford via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > >
> > > > It was previously unclear how unrecognised attributes are handled.
> > >
> > > Yeah, this was always part of the intended behavior, but I agree we did
> > > not say it very explicitly (aside from an in-code comment!). Both the
> > > intent and content of your patch look good to me.
> >
> > Thanks. What happens next? I should look for this change in the seen
> > branch? https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution#after-approval
>
> Usually the maintainer would pick it up, it would end up in seen, then
> eventually 'next', and then eventually 'master'. You can check the
> periodic "What's Cooking" messages from the maintainer to see more
> discussion of various topic branches.
>
> In this case, though, I don't see any indication that the maintainer
> picked saw it. It sometimes happens that a topic is simply overlooked,
> even if it received positive reviews.
>
> The usual thing to do is repost it, cc-ing the maintainer. I've also
> cc'd the interim maintainer here, so that may get things moving. :)

I think that Junio may have missed it when picking up topics. But it
happened before I start combing the list more finely, so I had already
purged it from my inbox without picking it up, either.

I'll take a look now and queue it to start merging down. Thanks for the
nudge.

Thanks,
Taylor