From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:44:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87hbr6jwsy.fsf@telefonica.net> <83my0yfc9g.fsf@gnu.org> <87zl4yi1jw.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262447136 2131 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2010 15:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 02 16:45:28 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 1NR6AS-0006qT-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:45:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NR6AS-0002YV-5b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:45:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NR6AM-0002XW-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NR6AD-0002W8-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56515 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NR6AD-0002W5-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.10] (port=54544 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NR6AD-0001vM-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NR69s-00025a-UA; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:44:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <87zl4yi1jw.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:04:19 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:119280 Archived-At: You can change anything on the history of your private branch using a variety of techniques (being `bzr uncommit' the simplest one,) but we have to admit that changing the message of an arbitrary revision is something that can't be done due to the nature of DVCSs How sad. I wonder if we could provide a different feature which would do the same job: namely, a way to enter a subsequent revision which says, "This message replaces the commit message of revision N." We could set it up so that the usual ways of looking at history will do that edit, as if the commit message of revision N had been changed. There would be an option to disable this automatic editing and show things as they really are.