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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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226596 Archived-At: On 06/22/2018 01:21 AM, Robert Pluim wrote: > That=CA=BCs a shame. Editing the file once it=CA=BCs generated is somet= hing I > have to remember to do at some unspecified point in the future, > whereas modifying an amendments file is something I can do right now. You should be able to edit the generated file right now. Just generate=20 it, commit the generated file, then edit the generated file and commit th= at. > I don=CA=BCt see how maintaining the file would be a pain in any case: > nobody is forced to use it It would be a pain because there would typically be two different=20 records of the edit in the committed files, and these records could=20 easily go out of sync. Changing history is plenty confusing enough=20 already; having dueling histories would make it even more confusing.