Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:
In any case the --pretty=oneline is very deliberate, as we can see from
the commit below. It just doesn't give a reason :-)
Thanks for digging and I hope everybody on this list who would ever send a
patch learns the importance of describing _why_ in the log from this
lesson.
I'll amend your 2/2 with a note that keeping the subject material is not
justified and we may want to remove (or at least reduce) it in the future.