From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:39:05 +0900 Message-ID: <8761pykel2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <8761q1ljny.fsf@gmail.com> <20140103175006.GE17261@thyrsus.com> <87iou0t72n.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87a9fb99qg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87sit37ac1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83bnzrv4b0.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnzr895i.fsf@nbtrap.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388911227 16130 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 08:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 08:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 09:40:33 2014 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 1VzjG2-0005hJ-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzjG2-0006MZ-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:40:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzjFr-0006MG-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzjFj-0005pG-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:40:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:42470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzjFj-0005Qy-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A880970A05; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 17:39:05 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F4531A2E7D; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 17:39:05 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:167350 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Right: by "edit past commit messages" we mean "without rewriting > history". I know it sounds contradictory, but it is only paradoxical. It's neither. It's an artifact of git implementation. I'm pretty sure there are VCSes that don't make the commit message part of history, but I think that's disgusting and don't allow VCSes like that in my house.