On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Sure. I don't use them either. But because I don't use them, it doesn't > affect me. It also doesn't change the core git data structures in any way > to introduce any new problems. Btw, so far nobody has even _explained_ what the advantage of the origin link is. It apparently has no effect for most things, and for other things it has some (unspecified) effect when it can be resolved. Apart from the "dotted line" in graphical history viewers, I haven't actually heard any single concrete example of exactly what it would *do*. And that dotted line really does sound like something you could do with just the existing "hyperlink" functionality in the commit message. Linus -- 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
