From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:54:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] gitweb: Remove dependency on external diff and need for temporary files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060826.204208.85688529.davem@davemloft.net> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, David Miller wrote: > > > Ok, can we now please fix my final annouyance, which is that gitweb from > > the very beginning has apparently believed that the "Signed-off-by:" etc > > lines are not important, and they get stripped away when looking at the > > "commit-diff". > > Isn't this to keep the email address from being published on the web > and thus harvested by spammers? Well, since gitweb already exposes all of those in the "commit" thing (in a different color, but they are there), I don't see why "commit-diff" wouldn't show the same data.. I would certainly _hope_ that every developer has a spam blocker. I don't think not showing email addresses is the answer to _that_ particular problem (and if somebody wants to harvest the email addresses for a git project that is exposed with gitweb, there are more efficient ways to do that ;) Linus