Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] hideTimezone: add a user.hideTimezone config

From: Shengfa Lin <shengfa@google.com>
Date: Oct 2, 2020, 06:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20201002065135.4096175-1-shengfa@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh7rees6h.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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>> Users requested hiding location in the world from source control
>> trail. This is an implementation to read user.hideTimezone in
>> cmd_commit and set timezone to UTC if it's true.
>
> Not a very good proposed log message, that sounds as if "it is
> what 'Users' requested, so it must be a worthwhile thing to do",
> which is not the line of thinking to go by.

That's a good point. Users requested does not necessarily equivalent to worthwhile thing to do. Thanks for pointing it out.

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