On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 12:19 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I honestly do not see your point. Yes, I said that the change > indicates that there is no useful example found (so far). That does > not necessarily mean that we must find a useful example so that we > can keep this sample script, which now became useless, alive. > > I am questioning the assumption that it helps users to have a sample > for prepare-commit-msg shipped with our source, and I suspect that > it may no longer be true. If the sole purpose of finding a useful > example is to keep the sample script alive, when the sample script > is no longer a useful thing to ship, then it does sound like "a > solution looking for a problem", no? > Ah, now I see your point. When you said "it's no longer useful", I thought you were mentioning only the part of the script that commented the sign-off. Now I get that your point of not shipping the sample script itself. Now that clears the confusion and sorry for the confusion I may have caused. -- Kaartic