Re: [PATCH] t0213: skip ancestry tests under user-mode emulation

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org> writes:

>> ...
>> Cc: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jamie Magee <jamie.magee@gmail.com>
>> ---
>
> Very sorry to say something completely outside the patch.
>
> But may I ask what's the point of writting the line started with "Cc:"?
> ...
> I know that Linux kernel has something about writting Cc in the commit
> message, while I don't see much from Git's documentation about trailers,
> including MyFirstContribution and SubmittingPatches.

If you ask me, 'Cc:' belongs in e-mail headers, not in commit
messages, though the Linux kernel community has a different
convention.

GitGitGadget collects 'Cc:' lines from the commit message and, when
sending e-mails on behalf of the author, copies the recipients
listed there, if I am not mistaken.  Thus, it is not surprising that
contributors use the trailer for that purpose.

We do not use the 'Cc:' trailer to allow a commit author to say, "As
the commit object indicates, I CC'd this change to that expert.  I
am no longer solely responsible for any bugs in this commit.  That
expert should have caught my mistake!"  ;-)

Thanks.