From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: Retroactively change email signature? [resend] Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:04:50 +1300 Message-ID: <477EBB92.605@vilain.net> References: <9b3e2dc20801021237v4d5d236fn3d2643502b9bb78f@mail.gmail.com> <477C7837.9000303@vilain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 05 00:04:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JAvak-0006QS-6r for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:04:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754754AbYADXEL (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:04:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754338AbYADXEK (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:04:10 -0500 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:36622 "EHLO mail.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753533AbYADXEJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:04:09 -0500 Received: by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 65534) id EBB8721D148; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:04:06 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.69.104] (203-97-235-49.cable.telstraclear.net [203.97.235.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D9221D13A; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:04:01 +1300 (NZDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on mail.musashi.utsl.gen.nz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.