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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Retroactively change email signature? [resend]
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:04:50 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <477EBB92.605@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801041031590.2811@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I don't care. If some commit refers to another commit that isn't its 
> ancestor, then that is undefined *anyway*. 
> 
> So the only case that really matters is when you refer to your own strict 
> ancestor.
> 
> This is one reason why it was so crazy that "git cherry-pick" used to have 
> "-x" by default - appending the original SHA1 (which is generally *not* an 
> ancestor) is meaningless and stupid.

Not stupid at all.  It gives you an easily clickable link to the
previous version of the patch, which may be of interest, and is
otherwise irretrievable information if the patch needed resolving.

Sam.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-02 20:37 Retroactively change email signature? Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-02 21:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-02 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 22:06   ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-03  0:53     ` David Brown
2008-01-03  5:52   ` Retroactively change email signature? [resend] Sam Vilain
2008-01-04 18:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-04 23:04       ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2008-01-04 23:08         ` Sam Vilain

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