Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:07 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In any case, explaining these things in this response is good, but >> eventually we need to make sure that the readers of the resulting >> commit would not have to ask the same question, without having to >> refer to external documentation. > > It might also be worthwhile -- for the non-Go readers -- for the > commit message to mention that this addition of a `go.mod` file does > not hinder those stuck with old pre-module versions of Go (it doesn't > help them either, but that's less significant), thus this change does > not require them to update to a modern version of Go (i.e. we're not > raising the minimum required version). Thanks for spelling out the most important part of what the readers should be able to read from the resulting commit. I agree that piece of information is a must.
