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Really curious why you tried to rename the file format magic string to have your initials? Going from GGML (see Title of this post) to GGJT with JT being Justine Tunney? Seems quite unnecessary and bound to have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

Here is the official commit undoing the change:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/711/files#diff-7...

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Because the previous changes to the file format were done by changing the last two initials of the magic. Someone commented on the pull request suggesting using a version field instead, which hadn't been documented, but Gerganov was so happy with the mmap() contribution that he asked me to keep the initials. So you should ask him why he wanted my initials to be there. I didn't see anyone else raise concerns until later on when the 4chan raid happened. I guess I failed to consider that folks who hate trans women would feel uncomfortable needing to mark their files with the initials of one. Here's the pull request: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613

Strange comment. This doesn't sound like a legitimate criticism because of "Here is the official commit undoing the change:" being not a link to a commit to start with, and secondly being a declined pull request, and thirdly for the reality that `master` writes `ggjt` header.

Really looks like some axe-grinding here, if I'm being honest. Especially because it takes very little effort to find out what the present header is by someone who can write software.

I'm a dev and know how to use git. Honestly that's just the PR I could find whilst catching up on this story and was curious what this "magic string" was. The change is there and got reverted 100%, see the other commenter who was the one that made it. If there is a better link you're welcome to post it.

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