From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:51:08 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas) Message-ID: <7vodypv3gz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> Then we should drop the author header and make it part of free >> form text. The core does not give any meaning to it. > > Sure it does. It's an integral part of logging: we not only verify the > format, we also have multiple different ways of showing it. So it > definitely changes the way we "act", very fundamentally. Unfair ;-). I'd consider "git log" semi-Porcelain and consider rev-list and cat-file the true core level. But you already made it clear that you are not opposed to 'note' with a clear semantics "we _ignore_ it", the point was moot. Sorry for the noise.