From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sean Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:52:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20060425035421.18382.51677.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <7v7j5e2jv7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jnareb@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 25 19:57:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYRmn-0005ML-LA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:57:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932099AbWDYR5P (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:57:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932100AbWDYR5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:57:14 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp09.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.169]:28568 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP09.BAYC1.HOTMAIL.COM") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932099AbWDYR5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:57:14 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [69.156.138.66] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Received: from linux1.attic.local ([69.156.138.66]) by BAYC1-PASMTP09.BAYC1.HOTMAIL.COM over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:58:41 -0700 Received: from guru.attic.local (guru.attic.local [10.10.10.28]) by linux1.attic.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF1F644C28; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:57:09 -0400 (EDT) To: Linus Torvalds Message-Id: <20060425135250.5fd889f4.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.15; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Apr 2006 17:58:41.0875 (UTC) FILETIME=[E33F2230:01C66891] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > Once you start adding data that has no clear semantics, you're screwed. At > that point, it's a "track guesses" game, not a "track contents" game. Then shouldn't Git stop tracking commit comments; they're just developer guesses. ;o) Adding a free-form header is no different than adding a few more lines of free form text at the bottom of the commit message, in neither case does it change the nice clean git semantics. Sean