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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in the elpa branch
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:22:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nzypniu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvty7zdynz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:08:16 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> That's not written in stone.  CVS can edit its commit logs, and there's
> no reason the same can't be done for other revision control systems.

At least for git, you can edit the last commit message with a simple
~$ git commit --amend

But editing the commit logs beyond that goes against a principle that
is somewhat carved in stone: "Don't modify the commit logs history."

I don't know how bzr devs feel about this.

-- 
 Bastien



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-26  7:09 ChangeLogs in the elpa branch Michael Albinus
2011-09-26  9:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-09-26 10:23   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 10:35     ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 14:23       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 15:52         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 16:49           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 21:13         ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 11:46   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-26 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 13:49   ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 16:26   ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-26 16:38     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:18       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-26 17:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 21:18       ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 21:27         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-27  3:10           ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-27  5:22       ` Bastien [this message]
2011-09-27  8:57         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-27  9:04           ` Bastien
2011-09-27  9:25           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 13:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27  7:10       ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-27  9:05         ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27  9:45           ` joakim
2011-09-27 12:02           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-27 13:05             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27  9:00     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27 12:24     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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