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Re: Feature request: "author branch" in commit object

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 3, 2013, 18:19 UTC
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Ed Hutchins <eh@demeterr.com> writes:
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> I might be able to switch our corporate workflow to adding non-ff merge
> commits, but the reason we moved away from using github's big red button
> in the first place was to avoid the extra noise of merge-only commits.
>
> Actually you've pointed out an inconsistency: why is it okay for merge
> commits to automatically mention branch names, but for regular commits
> this is considered harmful?
We do not care what you write as part of human-readable payload.

Your local convention could be to add, near the end of your log messages, "Made-on-branch: frotz" line, just like all the commits in our project have "Signed-off-by: line" at the end.

The problem we avoid is to add it as structural part of the commit object.

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  1. Ed HutchinsJul 2, 2013
  2. Fredrik GustafssonJul 2, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 2, 2013
  4. Ed HutchinsJul 2, 2013
  5. Antoine PelisseJul 3, 2013
  6. Ed HutchinsJul 3, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2013
  8. Andrew ArdillJul 4, 2013
  9. Johan HerlandJul 2, 2013
  10. Matthieu MoyJul 3, 2013
  11. Ed HutchinsJul 3, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2013
  13. Jakub NarebskiJul 3, 2013
  14. DanyJul 3, 2013
  15. DanyJul 3, 2013
  16. Matthieu MoyJul 4, 2013
  17. Philip OakleyJul 9, 2013

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