Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

Wouldn't it be better to mention the id of the local repository too? 

  Merge branch 'master' of ssh+git://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/lilypond into 
  'master' of 'hanwen@xs4all.nl'

this would give more information when these commit messages get pushed 
to someone else.

And why not put your address and birthday in there, too?

Frankly, it does not matter. In my private git repository I see that I 
often merged from this machine to that machine, criss-crossing often. It 
does not buy me anything to even know _where_ I got it from.

Besides, the information you are most likely looking for is the committer, 
which is recorded anyway.

The single most useful information in the Merge message is the name of the 
branch I merged, since it is more often than not a topic branch, which is 
aptly named.

Ciao,
Dscho