On: Linus Torvalds did not commit this

[rabbyte]

While it's probably well known from a command line perspective, I doubt it's well known from a web service (GitHub) perspective. I have a healthy distrust of git logs but trusting a photo and username on GitHub is a pattern reinforced by every other social app.

[berdario → rabbyte]

Not only it's not well known, but it breaks them:

some years ago I reported this issue on gitorious, which yielded an HTTP500 when the repository contained a signed commit:

https://issues.gitorious.org/issues/193 (it's now down, but hopefully it'll reappear on archive.org)

and it'll prevent Launchpad from automatically mirroring git repositories (which is paramount to be able to automatically update PPA with recipes)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-git/+bug/1372149

[andrewstuart2 → rabbyte]

It does give a strong impression of authority that said user did indeed author a commit. Especially being a link to that user's profile.

[wcummings → rabbyte]

I've seen this demonstrated on github before w/ defunkt's account/email