On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 12:59:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > For something to be an eye sore, it also has to be of no use to > those who consider it an eye sore. The signed-off-by trailer is > noisy and it becomes annoying after reading "git log --no-merges" > for a week worth of commits, but it serves useful purpose so nobody > would complain them as being an eye sore, even if they complain for > other reasons. Maybe `git log` can have options for leaving out trailers of no interest to the user? Email workflows still will see them, of course. > Why weren't they seeing any benefit of having such trailer? Would > they have found a good use of the information if it were hidden in > the header part? > > If the answer is "it is only useful to some people", what is the > [...] I think the answer is "they are only useful a tiny fraction of the times I/we/they look at the git log". Nico --
