From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:36:34 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: <20080911233634.GE29559@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: >I have asked several times what it is that makes it so important that the >"origin" information be in the headers. Nobody has been able to explain >why it's so different from just doing it in the free-form part. NOBODY. That's because the difference is small: In the header is slightly faster and more elegant (both designwise and displaywise), that's it. Other than that, it hardly matters. >The only thing I have ever argued against is adding commit headers that >have no sane semantics and don't make sense as internal git data >structures. Of course. In any case, I think I got enough feedback from the list to create a working implementation/concept which is going to use the free-form trailer to implement the origin field. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg.