On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > That is IF unknown headers are copied verbatim during rebase. For > > "encoding" header this is a good thing, for "generation" it isn't. > > commit headers are _not_ copied during rebase Yes, this turns out to be true as I forgot that rebase is constructed on top of format-patch+am, and format-patch doesn't preserve the ancillary headers such as the existing "encoding" header, or the hypothetical "generation" header. Nicolas -- 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