From: Sam Vilain Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:08:43 GMT Subject: Re: Retroactively change email signature? [resend] Message-ID: <477EBC7B.2080606@vilain.net> In-Reply-To: <477EBB92.605@vilain.net> Sam Vilain wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: >> I don't care. If some commit refers to another commit that isn't its >> ancestor, then that is undefined *anyway*. >> >> So the only case that really matters is when you refer to your own strict >> ancestor. >> >> This is one reason why it was so crazy that "git cherry-pick" used to have >> "-x" by default - appending the original SHA1 (which is generally *not* an >> ancestor) is meaningless and stupid. > > Not stupid at all. It gives you an easily clickable link to the > previous version of the patch, which may be of interest, and is > otherwise irretrievable information if the patch needed resolving. footnote: of course it is entirely meaningless if the referred SHA1 is not published anywhere, so I agree with the cherry-pick default setting. Sam.