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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:51:08 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> Then we should drop the author header and make it part of free
>> form text.  The core does not give any meaning to it.
>
> Sure it does. It's an integral part of logging: we not only verify the 
> format, we also have multiple different ways of showing it. So it 
> definitely changes the way we "act", very fundamentally.

Unfair ;-).  I'd consider "git log" semi-Porcelain and consider
rev-list and cat-file the true core level.

But you already made it clear that you are not opposed to 'note'
with a clear semantics "we _ignore_ it", the point was moot.

Sorry for the noise.