Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>I have asked several times what it is that makes it so important that the 
>"origin" information be in the headers. Nobody has been able to explain 
>why it's so different from just doing it in the free-form part. NOBODY.

That's because the difference is small:
In the header is slightly faster and more elegant (both designwise and
displaywise), that's it.
Other than that, it hardly matters.

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>The only thing I have ever argued against is adding commit headers that 
>have no sane semantics and don't make sense as internal git data 
>structures.

Of course.

In any case, I think I got enough feedback from the list to create
a working implementation/concept which is going to use the free-form
trailer to implement the origin field.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
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