From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:29:01 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <200612141519.44294.andyparkins@gmail.com> <4581721B.4050102@xs4all.nl> <458174C9.2050401@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GvAHF-0003rJ-2e for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:26:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751764AbWLOK0u (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:26:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751771AbWLOK0u (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:26:50 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56975 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751764AbWLOK0t (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:26:49 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GvAH5-0006JU-9A for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:26:43 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.25.107]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:26:43 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:26:43 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be better to mention the id of the local repository too? >> >> Merge branch 'master' of ssh+git://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/lilypond into >> 'master' of 'hanwen@xs4all.nl' >> >> this would give more information when these commit messages get pushed >> to someone else. > > And why not put your address and birthday in there, too? > > Frankly, it does not matter. In my private git repository I see that I > often merged from this machine to that machine, criss-crossing often. It > does not buy me anything to even know _where_ I got it from. > > Besides, the information you are most likely looking for is the committer, > which is recorded anyway. > > The single most useful information in the Merge message is the name of the > branch I merged, since it is more often than not a topic branch, which is > aptly named. By the way, I run git with merge.summary=true, and it is very nice and usually shows the correct thing... but because git doesn't mark branching points in any way sometimes under feature branch header there are changes not related to given topic, but which were on given branch; the fast-forward case I think. That said, I'm all for not having "master" branch special-cased, besides having it default name for branch in git-init-db. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git