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From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:42:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXohjKkvPLvL4y5J3t1UJf+MJ1ZoohEBmCnLDYB6ptGeGpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83egfg1ybr.fsf@gnu.org>

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> 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.

/john

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-23 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23 10:51 Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-23 11:01 ` David Caldwell
2015-11-23 11:32   ` David Kastrup
2015-11-23 12:38     ` Yuri Khan
2015-11-23 19:31     ` David Caldwell
2015-11-23 20:17       ` David Kastrup
2015-11-23 11:10 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-23 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-23 16:27   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-23 16:42   ` John Yates [this message]
2015-11-23 17:49     ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-23 18:31       ` David Kastrup

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