From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201215 Archived-At: On 03/08/2016 11:27 PM, David Caldwell wrote: >> How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? > > I was thinking something along the lines of "reword: " in the message. That would work. >> How about putting all corrections as plain files in a subdirectory? Each >> file will be named after a commit whose message it's "changing". IIRC, >> I've seen such idea mentioned before, and it seems like it should work. > > Yeah, It would work as well. I just thought it would be nice to keep > meta-data corrections in the meta-data itself. I figured it would be nice to be able to quickly find it. In vc-print-log integration code, for example. > I don't believe they do, by default. And if they need to be amended to > include that, you might as well amend to include the fixed commit-log > instead. The do when produced like we recommend in admin/notes/git-workflow (with -x argument). If it doesn't, it's not the end of the world. Someone will just have to issue a correction for the new hash as well.