On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That is IF unknown headers are copied verbatim during rebase. For > "encoding" header this is a good thing, for "generation" it isn't. Afaik, they aren't copied verbatim, and never have been. Afaik, the only thing that has *ever* written commits is "commit_tree()" (originally "main()" in commit-tree.c). Why is this red herring even being discussed? Of course you can always generate bogus commits by writing them by hand. But that's irrelevant. Linus -- 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