From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:30:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate
Message-ID: <7v623ga8vs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1357012655-24974-3-git-send-email-greened@obbligato.org>

"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?