From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:42:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] gitweb: Remove dependency on external diff and need for temporary files
Message-ID: <20060826.204208.85688529.davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608262026230.11811@g5.osdl.org>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:30:49 -0700 (PDT)

> Ok, can we now please fix my final annouyance, which is that gitweb from 
> the very beginning has apparently believed that the "Signed-off-by:" etc 
> lines are not important, and they get stripped away when looking at the 
> "commit-diff".

Isn't this to keep the email address from being published on the web
and thus harvested by spammers?

If it will obfuscate the email address, that's fine I guess.