Hi Marcus, Marcus Comstedt wrote: > Was this patch simply forgotten, or are there some remaining > concerns about it? I assume it is just that no one using the $ident$ feature took a look at it, which leaves us without a sanity-check that it consistently works and improves things. If you have the time, a test and documentation might help (the former plays the role of an artificial user, who can describe the feature and will make noise if we break it with future changes). > Should I submit a new patch which simply fixes the inconsistency > which breaks checkout, and leaves the removal of foreign idents > on commit to user interaction or hook scripts, as suggested by > Jonathan? That would at least restore deterministic behavior... That doesn't sound necessary to me. -- 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