Hi, On 2015-08-07 19:10, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > But to be honest, I wasn't expecting a miracle cure. I guess the core > of my gripe is just that: how the commit message is part of the SHA. The commit message is not "part of the SHA" but it is part of the content that defines the SHA-1. I guess in your case, you would rather have an empty commit message and attach the real message as a commit note. Speaking for myself, I actually like it that the entire metadata is part of the commit object, even the commit message. It makes the whole thing more reliable: one cannot claim that the commit does one thing on one day, and the next day all of a sudden claim that the commit does something completely different. Git's just really consistent the way it is. Ciao, Johannes -- 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