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Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)

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oftenwrong ◴[22 Jun 25 14:20 UTC] No.44347165[source]▶
Another little-known feature is git trailers:

https://alchemists.io/articles/git_trailers

These are key-value structures data that can be included on a commit when it is created. These are used by some systems for attaching metadata. For example, Gerrit uses this for attaching its Change-Id.

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1. mdaniel ◴[22 Jun 25 16:03 UTC] No.44347997[source]▶
I recently learned that GitHub uses it for an alternative to including [skip ci] for what I presume is easier removal by downstream consumers of the commit message https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs-an...

I don't know why they mandate it to be the last trailer unless it's for regex reasons