From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:33:31 +0200 Message-ID: <838wchgais.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87hbr6jwsy.fsf@telefonica.net> <83my0yfc9g.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262356294 32104 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2010 14:31:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 01 15:31:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NQiXE-0002li-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:31:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQiXE-0006lE-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQiX7-0006j5-Fp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:31:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQiWy-0006b7-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47483 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQiWy-0006b0-4B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:31:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:49154) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQiWx-0004As-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:31:07 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KVK00B00OARJM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:31:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.222.44]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KVK00AOEOBS2I50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:31:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119204 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:19:14 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > But the issue is not to undo the commit, only fix the text of the > > commit message. > > That's fundamentally the same. Perhaps in bzr it is, but not in real life. > > Something similar to "cvs admin -mREV:MESSAGE". > > You have to forget the idea that you can modify (published) history. > With a DVCS you can only create history. Once you have published a > commit it is immutable. A commit message is not history, it's a label of that history.