From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:45:49 +0200
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>> I actually like the commit notes idea, but then I wonder: why are the
>> author and committer part of the commit object?  How does the plumbing
>> use them?  Isn't that metadata that could live in the "notes"?  And so,
> 
> we already *have* the non-mutable version of the notes, it's called the
> header of the commit message.

Yes, that was my point.  I don't see how the author and committer fit in
the header of the commit message, if the origin does not.

Paolo