From: Ryan Anderson <rda@google.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:25:03 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <87dcb0bd0610172025l25d6646dq761dd08792e2b290@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45357411.20500@utoronto.ca>

On 10/17/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > In other words, the empty merge is totally semantically empty even in the
> > bazaar world. Why does it exist?
>
> It exists because it is useful.  Because it makes the behavior of bzr
> merge uniform.  Because in some workflows, commits show that a person
> has signed off on a change.

In the Git world that happens via "git tag -s", i.e, a
cryptographically strong "signoff".
(There's also the secondary convention of appending Signed-off-by: to
email-applied patches, but that's something that would translate
effectively to any other system, since it's outside the SCM.)