From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:39:20 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56E1B148.8030500@cs.ucla.edu> References: <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <56DE0F6A.6010207@cs.ucla.edu> <83pov5rmt6.fsf@gnu.org> <56DFD78F.40205@cs.ucla.edu> <56E06093.7050509@cs.ucla.edu> <83twkfo7ij.fsf@gnu.org> <20160309181005.GF3948@acm.fritz.box> <87vb4vuu59.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87pov3nrnm.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <83mvq6n7xs.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1r2mzuy.fsf@gnu.org> <8360wumxj4.fsf@gnu.org> <56E1A228.6040602@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457631726 300 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 17:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 18:41:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ae4b0-0004e4-GZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:41:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae4b0-0001mu-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:41:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae4YY-00062x-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:39:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae4YU-0004zx-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:39:26 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:50929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae4YU-0004zP-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:39:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F46C160998; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:39:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id fDLLH6FDCBbe; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:39:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF299160E8A; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:39:20 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id SARJ195-hAvy; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:39:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B677E160998; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:39:20 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:201413 Archived-At: On 03/10/2016 09:17 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Indeed, "git replace" is a lot more powerful than I'd like.... > Is there some way to control its usage? As far as I know, the only control is to ignore all replacements, by using git's --no-replace-objects option or setting the GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS environment variable. As I understand it, 'git replace' was motivated by the need to do fancier things, e.g., link a repository with another old repository. It is indeed a powerful mechanism.