From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Fredrik Nyqvist <fredrik.nyqvist94@gmail.com>
Cc: 38343@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38343: 27.0.50; vc git: Cannot edit outgoing log (like git commit --amend)
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:08:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85bba360-2a57-63b8-d82f-3ed7bcd8bee1@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEhcwWbf8LC+0SH_c5sb83LUdLqnMLySDeuEO-Zhoutev=ofBQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 27.11.2019 22:11, Fredrik Nyqvist wrote:
>
>
> Den ons 27 nov. 2019 kl 01:10 skrev Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru
> <mailto:dgutov@yandex.ru>>:
>
> On 26.11.2019 22:43, Fredrik Nyqvist wrote:
> > Den mån 25 nov. 2019 kl 23:49 skrev Dmitry Gutov
> <dgutov@yandex.ru <mailto:dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > <mailto:dgutov@yandex.ru <mailto:dgutov@yandex.ru>>>:
> >
> > On 25.11.2019 22:16, Fredrik Nyqvist wrote:
> > > Yes, I have tried the option you mention to edit the last
> commit
> > with
> > > C-x C-e and it is working fine.
> > > But It seems that it only allows amending the last commit
> if I have
> > > edited a file.
> >
> > Yes. Not sure how to change an arbitrary commit in Git anyway
> (without
> > interactive rebase). The best approximation looks like this:
> >
> > https://stackoverflow.com/a/48999882/615245
> >
> >
> > I am not sure how to do it in a good way either. Maybe the option to
> > edit an
> > older commit message could be skipped for vc-git. And then just
> allow amend
> > on the latest one.
>
> The question is how to skip. Error in the end, after the user has
> already written the new commit message?
>
> Or add a backend predicate action, like "can edit revision ##". That's
> one more action, though.
>
>
> If the user is trying to edit an older commit message from the
> log-buffer (with log-view-modify-change-comment) I think an error
> message is good, before writing the commit message ("can't edit revision
> ##"). I feel that it will be more clear at least.
Then it seems like we'd also have to introduce a new predicate backend
action (like "can I edit this revision"). Given a recent discussion with
our maintainer, I'm not confident we're allowed to do that.
> Also we should think about how to handle a commit that has already been
> pushed. In this case I guess a force push is needed, but maybe that is
> not good to hide. Maybe it is better to just allow edit on local commits
> then.
Yeah, it's going to be a choice. Sometimes editing even a commit that's
been pushed is okay (if it's on a personal branch). We already allow
doing that with 'C-x C-e', so I'd rather we only gave out a warning
(with yes-no prompt). The aforementioned predicate could do that job, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-27 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-23 10:01 bug#38343: 27.0.50; vc git: Cannot edit outgoing log (like git commit --amend) Fredrik Nyqvist
2019-11-25 11:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-25 20:16 ` Fredrik Nyqvist
2019-11-25 22:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-26 20:43 ` Fredrik Nyqvist
2019-11-27 0:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-27 20:11 ` Fredrik Nyqvist
2019-11-27 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2019-11-28 20:48 ` Fredrik Nyqvist
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