Re: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah.

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, John

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:42:49AM -0500, John Yates wrote:
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > or would I be better just to abandon the branch and create another one?

> My understanding is that if you never merge that tip with its sub-par
> commit message into master then ultimately it will time out and get
> garbage collected.  You could create a new branch just before the one
> you wish to amend and push that new branch to Savannah.  (Under the
> covers that is more or less what git amend does.)  From then on you
> would work on that new branch, ultimately merging it into master.

Presumably the timeout period is some system-wide setting, and it will
be something like 3 months.

> /john

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