> unless i'm missing something, only getting email/jira > notifications the first time a specific commit was seen would mean that > when backporting from master to 5x (or 6x down the road) there would be no > tracking email/comment ... which would make it much harder to know when > things were backported. >
I don't think that is true, since backporting would be done with cherry-pick, which actually creates a new commit (and thus a different hash). This issue is about the *same* hash appearing on multiple branches through merge commits.
