Re: More builtin git-am issues..

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

Am 05.09.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> So I think that logic should basically be extended to saying
>>
>>   - if any line in the last chunk has a "Signed-off-by:", set a flag.
>>
>>   - at the end of the loop, if that flag wasn't set, return 0.
>
> I am reluctant to special case S-o-b: too much, even though this is
> about "am -s" and by definition S-o-b: is special, as that is what
> we are adding after all.
>
> How about a bit looser rule like this?
>
>      A block of text at the end of the message, each and every
>      line in which must match "^[^: 	]+:[      ]" (that is,
>      a "keyword" that does not contain a whitespace nor a colon,
>      followed by a colon and whitespace, and arbitrary value thru
>      the end of line) is a signature block.

Why do we need a new rule? The old git-am had a logic that pleased 
everyone, and it must have been implemented somewhere. Shouldn't it be 
sufficient to just re-implement or re-use that logic?

-- Hannes