From: Vincenzo di Cicco Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:43:04 GMT Subject: Re: Reference to a commit inside a commit message Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140428195544.GN9218@google.com> Thank you very much > Why not? the reason is to avoid mistakes with the hash. An automatic approach can verify the existence of the commit. > See the output of > > git log --grep='In commit ' > > and > > git log --grep='In v' I've just tried the commands and noticed that this can be a common practice. This increases my curiosity to know if there is a better way to handle this situation, if you know other thread where was discussed, please tell me the link. Thanks, NaN