Stephen Boyd <bebarino@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> I don't know how important people will feel this to be, but I've occasionally >>> found it interesting to see how many people are using various different >>> versions of git in a particular development community, and having the >>> version in the signature is a useful gauge on that. >> >> The original motivation of the version signature was exactly that ;-). > ... > The real question is how useful is it to have the version number > there? There are other ways to gauge the version usage and it's opt-in > so you'll still get some version number coverage. I sent the previous message without finishing that sentence. I personally have been feeling that the version number there outlived its usefulness for quite some time. If others (like Ted) find it useful/amusing/interesting, we may want to keep the default and make sure it is not too easy to customize it away, and I think what your patch does is fine. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html