Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So I'd really like some way to not see it. > > Ted suggested a NUL character in the commit message in front of the > "hidden content". What do you think? You do not have to resort to NUL; we could just stuff whatever you do not need to see but needs to be left *intact* in the new header fields just like the embedded GPG signatures are stored in signed commits. By the time the integrator is presented the merge commit template, we would have: 1. The merge title (e.g. "Merge tag for-linus of git://.../rusty.git/"); 2. Payload of the signed tag (or just "annotated tag"), which is used to convey meaningful topic description from the lieutenant; 3. The signature in the tag, if the tag is not just merely annotated, but is signed; 4. The output from GPG verification of the above (only when 3. is available); and 5. The traditional "merge summary", if merge.log is enabled. The 10-patch series I sent earlier appends 2 and 3 with "tag:" prefix and 4 with "# " prefix in the commit log template, but it does not have to be that way. We could arrange things so that we put only 1, 2, 4 (still with "# " prefix because this is meant to help you verify the authenticity, not for later third-party audit, and to be stripped away with stripspace before the commit is made) and 5 in the commit log template, and the original signed tag contents (only when the tag is signed, not merely annotated) in a separate file MERGE_SIG in $GIT_DIR/ next to MERGE_MSG, and teach "git commit" to pick it up and stuff it in a new header field. That way, the integrator can use the message 2 for the commit log message and is free to typofix it, without breaking later third-party audit which would use what is taken literally from the signed tag and stored in the new header field, because the integrator's editor would never touch the latter. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html