Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The "[]" convention is a microformat used by Linux kernel folks. So it's > not "whoops, we are stripping stuff not added by git". It is respecting > a microformat used by the tool's authors. > > That being said, if we were choosing a default from scratch today, it > might go the other way. But we aren't, and we have to deal with the > burden of breaking existing scripts by flipping it. And I do think it no longer is sensible to expect that it still is kernel-only convention. Any project that uses e-mail based workflow with Git have known how "[]" microformat works, may even have taken advantage of it to build their workflow around it, and flipping the default will only hurt them. A project that chooses not to follow the convention can easily tweak a knob to keep using different conventions, so I do not see anything to change here. -- 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