From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:35:34 GMT Subject: Re: Could we please make "cherry-pick" not add the message by default? Message-ID: <7v1wpm5lih.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > 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.