From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Allan Webber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:39:12 -0800 Message-ID: <87k2lb1asf.fsf@dustycloud.org> 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> <20160309193454.GG3948@acm.fritz.box> <87twkfo2tp.fsf@linux-m68k.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457566770 23545 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 23:39:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 23:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 00:39:25 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 1adnhK-0000Z3-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:39:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adnhK-00087v-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:39:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adnhG-000873-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adnhF-0007nW-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:34596) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adnhB-0007nD-SJ; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:39:13 -0500 Original-Received: from oolong (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E77C926728; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:39:12 -0500 (EST) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 24.5.1 In-reply-to: <87twkfo2tp.fsf@linux-m68k.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 50.116.34.160 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:201338 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > >> Hello, Stefan. >> >> On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:09:53PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> > Maybe we should move to a version control system which permits commit >>> > messages to be amended. (Only half joking.) >> >>> These seem to be in rather short supply, sadly. Any suggestion? >> >> Mercurial. It has the hg histedit command. > > Git. It has the git rebase command. > > Andreas. That requires throwing out your previous history... that's not good practice for code already pushed to a master branch, unless it's an emergency. It creates huge headaches.