Re: Weird mangling of a commit log entry in gitweb summary

On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 6:24 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 11:56:56PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> >
> > I will try to see if upstream would welcome such a change.
>
> After some discussions it turned out that upstream doesn't have a gitweb
> instance running anymore,

That's interesting to know indeed. I thought they still had both. But
I see now that git itself is purely on github, and the linux kernel
seems to only use cgit.


> so they preferred to remove the whole title
> shortening block.  The patch just landed on the master branch (1) and should
> be available in the next release.
>
> [1] https://github.com/git/git/commit/75707da4fa4105c174017d079786e5bba79a96f6

It'll take a long time for that to trickle down to our install, but I
think it's still worth just waiting for it instead of maintaining even
a backpatch -- due to how little this has been a problem.


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