From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:45:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Semantics of change IDs (Re: Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer)
Message-ID: <aAhwcgzSIaE6l1O9@ubby>
In-Reply-To: <D9DMCVD6EG00.317YDVDW95P45@buenzli.dev>

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 03:15:28AM +0200, Remo Senekowitsch wrote:
> You can stuff as much free-form metadata into the commit message as you
> want, because git itself doesn't care much about what's in there. The
> better analogy would be to put the names of your mom and dad in the
> "parent" header as a free-form piece of metadata about the heritage of
> the commit author. That's gonna break stuff.

The point was that lacking a change ID header people have been resorting
to conventions, and to point out that people have been using ticket IDs
as change IDs.  It's just an observation.