From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:34:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604251233340.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vslo1v4zw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



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.

		Linus