Re: Absentee log entry and Git question

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  schwab@linux-m68k.org,
>  gerd.moellmann@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 11:48:00 +0200
> 
> > The VC log is carved in stone with Git, so it cannot be corrected.
> >
> > We _can_ correct that in the generated ChangeLog file, though.  To
> > this end, one needs to generate ChangeLog.4, then edit it, and then
> > commit the fixed version.  This can be done now, or it can be deferred
> > until the first pretest tarball is made for the next version.
> 
> Could an empty commit with just the missing ChangeLog hunk work? It can
> be created using:
> 
>   git commit --allow-empty

It won't help, so no.

> BTW, it might make sense to reuse/reimplement some of the git
> infrastructure GCC uses to prevent pushes without matching ChangeLogs.

We already have such hooks, but that commit was more than 6 months
ago.