Jeff King wrote: > These > flags may sometimes require extra dependencies to be added > (e.g., like GIT-VERSION-FILE; this is not the case for any > of the updated lines in this patch, but it is establishing a > style that will be used in later patches). [...] > This patch explicitly does not update the static header > dependencies used when COMPUTED_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES is off. I think you are asking the commit message to do more work than it needs to, and to answer questions that no one just trying to understand the patch would ask. :) Wouldn't it be simpler to put the ground rules in a comment or a document somewhere under Documentation/ where they can be easily found? Hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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