Re: Could we please make "cherry-pick" not add the message by default?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 6, 2006, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wpm5lih.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610051711310.3952@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> It appears that more and more people are finding "git cherry-pick", and we 
> now have a number of totally inane
>
> 	cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit
>
> messages in the kernel logs, because I don't want to just re-cherry-pick 
> them and edit peoples logs.
>
> Those messages not only make no grammatical sense (you'd say "commit X" 
> rather than "X commit"), but they have no point. The original commit is 
> not reachable and makes no sense any more, and that's actually likely to 
> always be the common case.
>
> So could we just (a) fix the message word order to make sense and (b) make 
> it only happen if people explicitly ask for it, rather than by default?

Let's do (c) never show it and make -r a no-op.