Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] sequencer.c: recognize "(cherry picked from ..." as part of s-o-b footer

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Brandon Casey wrote:

> Let's detect "(cherry picked from...)" as part of the footer so that we
> will produce this:
>
>    Signed-off-by: A U Thor <author@example.com>
>    (cherry picked from da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709)
>    Signed-off-by: C O Mmitter <committer@example.com>
>
> instead of this:
>
>    Signed-off-by: A U Thor <author@example.com>
>    (cherry picked from da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709)
>
>    Signed-off-by: C O Mmitter <committer@example.com>

Yes, looks sane.

A downside is that this produces an arguably worse result when using
"-x -s" for a commit that does not already have a sign-off.  Before,
we had:

	test: do something great

	Do something fantastic in a clean and elegant way that
	only takes two lines of explanation.
	(cherry picked from da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709)

	Signed-off-by: C H Errypicker <cherry-picker@example.com>

Afterwards, we will have:

	test: do something great

	Do something fantastic in a clean and elegant way that
	only takes two lines of explanation.
	(cherry picked from da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709)
	Signed-off-by: C H Errypicker <cherry-picker@example.com>

An ideal result would be completely different:

	test: do something great

	commit da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 upstream.

	Do something fantastic in a clean and elegant way that
	only takes two lines of explanation.

	Signed-off-by: C H Errypicker <cherry-picker@example.com>

In other words, the -x output format that puts the commit id at the
end with odd spacing seems to be of questionable taste anyway.  But
given the constraint of leaving that alone, cramming together the
sign-off like this seems like the best we can do, so for what it's
worth,
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>