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Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes:

> It might be useful to append the commit checksum from Linus' tree to the
> comments so it is easier to backtrack to the original commit.

Although I am not a kernel person, I can imagine how that would
be useful.

The pre-generated documentation branches in git.git repository
are managed similarly to allow tracking of the branch they
originate from.