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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:35:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 24c1315d (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:35:47 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Kristoffer Haugsbakk Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] SubmittingPatches: discuss non-ident trailers Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 12:22:45AM +0200, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > index 0b12badf86d..51c308a89a8 100644 > --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > @@ -474,7 +474,10 @@ These are the common trailers in use: > > While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we > encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project > -highlighted above. > +highlighted above. A trailer that credits someone might be more likely > +to be accepted since these are the most common ones. But another kind of > +trailer might be relevant, for example to link to an issue tracker > +belonging to a downstream project that is affected by a bug in Git. Hm, I wonder whether this is a bit too vague to really be helpful for a newcomer. Instead of alluding to such trailers, wouldn't it be preferable if we added those as actual examples to the list of known trailers and then tell folks that they can invent their own ones if there is a good reason to do so? Patrick