From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:06:45 GMT
Subject: Re: How to log a host (or a repository) of a commit?
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In-Reply-To: <87fx3fniiy.fsf@dasa3.iem.pw.edu.pl>

Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl> writes:

> Is there a way of logging (an retrieveing this information) where a
> commit has been created and keeping it when merging/pulling/pushing?

For example, in

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142549

Linus says:

    I used to find it convenient to see what machines I had worked on, so
    I actually included that.

Two observations to draw from this:

 - You could use committer identity for that.
 - Wonder why it is "used to"; perhaps it wasn't useful after all.