On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 07:04:52PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote:

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> I can make a patch, but at the moment I'm swamped and I don't want to think
> about doing that.
>
> I'll get around to it eventually, I hope.
>
> Do I just submit the patch to this list? How do I know it will be used?

Yes, send a patch to the list and to Junio (the maintainer).  See
Documentation/SubmittingPatches for details.

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> Frankly, I don't know how robust my idea is either, but it's simple
> enough not to have many problems lurking in the shadows.
>
> It would certainly be more useful than not.

Then submit a patch implementing it. :)

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>> all of the data that goes into the commit hash as textual comments in
>> the CVS commit (committer name/time, author name/time). And then
> I considered this too, but this exposes what we're doing. We don't
> want the old farts to wonder what all these hash thingies are.

Heh. I like the idea of git secretly infiltrating institutions,
replacing CVS unbeknownst to management. It was the same for Linux in
the mid-90's ("our mail server is running on what!?").

-Peff
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