Re: [PATCH] hook: use correct logical variable

> I did shoot for conciseness, but what is a lot more important is to
> record what is at the core of the issue.  "I found it by doing A"
> can hint to careful readers why doing A leads to an undesirable
> behaviour, but when there are other ways to trigger problems that
> come from the same cause, "I found it by doing A" is less useful
> unless we also record "Doing A reveals the underlying problem X"
> that can be shared by other ways B, C, ... to trigger it.  The
> careful readers need to guess what the X is.
> 
> And once you identify the underlying problem X and record _that_ in
> the log message, I and A in "I found it by doing A" becomes much
> less interesting and the readers do not have to guess.
> 
> Your "A" is 'git commit --amend -s' with the disabled part of hook
> enabled.  But I think 'git commit' without "--amend" and "-s" would
> also show an issue that come from the same root cause.  The hook
> will add SoB that is based on the author, not the committer.  That
> resulting commit would be different from 'git commit -s' without the
> hook enabled, which would add SoB based on the commiter name (that
> would be a "B", that causes a related but different problem that
> comes from the same underlying issue "X" which is "we should
> consistently use the committer info like other parts of the
> system").
> 
> In any case, thanks for a fix-up.  Let's move this forward quickly,
> as it is an update to a topic that is already in 'master'.
> 
> Thanks.