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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:18:16 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, John Mehr via freebsd-git <freebsd-git@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Thoughts on git commit mail
Message-ID:  <60a3340f-4b49-6285-54a5-5c177af03cff@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12/15/20 4:20 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, at 6:59 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> 2) I would drop the first sentence.  It's a bit redundant to list
>>    the committer an extra time.  The branch name is useful, but it
>>    might be nicer as metadata if possible, e.g.:
>>
>> Branch: main
> 
> When you say meta-data, do you mean email headers?

No, I mean the part of the mail contents before the actual
commit log that contains 'Key: value' fields.  There are also
mail headers (X-Git-foo) that you can use already.

-- 
John Baldwin



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