From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Caldwell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? 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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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201212 Archived-At: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms020208050704080608000906 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 3/8/16 1:16 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote: >=20 >> Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but= >> using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way = it >> gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal. >=20 > How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? I was thinking something along the lines of "reword: " in the messa= ge. > And after making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only > redo it fully. Correct. Newest one wins. > How about putting all corrections as plain files in a subdirectory? Eac= h > file will be named after a commit whose message it's "changing". IIRC, > I've seen such idea mentioned before, and it seems like it should work.= Yeah, It would work as well. I just thought it would be nice to keep meta-data corrections in the meta-data itself. > We could even implement integration with vc-print-log without too much > difficulty. The main thing to solve is the cherrypick commits (does the= > correction apply to whose? always?); Cherry-picks would definitely require more effort. > but as long as cherrypicks include the references to their parents in > the message, it should be workable, one way or another. I don't believe they do, by default. And if they need to be amended to include that, you might as well amend to include the fixed commit-log instead. -David --------------ms020208050704080608000906 Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExDzANBglghkgBZQMEAgEFADCABgkqhkiG9w0BBwEAAKCC Ct0wggTzMIID26ADAgECAhA5IEwCoOHUpDUe6xUti95tMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMHUxCzAJ BgNVBAYTAklMMRYwFAYDVQQKEw1TdGFydENvbSBMdGQuMSkwJwYDVQQLEyBTdGFydENvbSBD ZXJ0aWZpY2F0aW9uIEF1dGhvcml0eTEjMCEGA1UEAxMaU3RhcnRDb20gQ2xhc3MgMSBDbGll bnQgQ0EwHhcNMTYwMjA5MDA1NTI1WhcNMTcwMjA5MDA1NTI1WjBAMRswGQYDVQQDDBJkYXZp ZEBwb3JrcmluZC5vcmcxITAfBgkqhkiG9w0BCQEWEmRhdmlkQHBvcmtyaW5kLm9yZzCCASIw DQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBAOqlU6S8xlPcP2hxvHVNDpEO3Vuq+vS1x2dP 1AOhXxKU8qkcX7bpBMx94GtXi4Hskhpl11vOBdJagkXf5/ngCV70lkeCudGdxDaNCreWkNze 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