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:201206 Archived-At: On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote: > Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but > using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way it > gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal. How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? And after making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only redo it fully. 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. We could even implement integration with vc-print-log without too much difficulty. The main thing to solve is the cherrypick commits (does the correction apply to whose? always?); but as long as cherrypicks include the references to their parents in the message, it should be workable, one way or another.