2008/8/27 Zachary Goldberg zgold550@gmail.com:
I may be remembering incorrectly, but If i recall wasn't there developer requests for some sort of tracking mechanism to see if their own patches had been committed? I recall some complicated discussion about using different hashes and such as inidices to try and figure out if a patch was committed.
It was probably about knowing if a patch was explicitly rejected or just pending. In practice, if it's been more than a few days the patch is almost always rejected, so I don't think it matters all that much.