Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jan 1, 2013, 21:30 UTC
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"David A. Greene" <greened@obbligato.org> writes:
> From: James Nylen <jnylen@gmail.com> > > Teach git-subtree about --unannotate. This option strips a prefix > from a commit message when doing a subtree split.
Hrm. This looks like a workaround for a short-sighted misdesign of the annotate option that only allowed prefixing a fixed string. I have to wonder if it is better to deprecate --annotate and replace it with a more general "commit log rewriting" facility that can cover both use cases?