From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:03:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83lh5utbxb.fsf@gnu.org> <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <56DE0F6A.6010207@cs.ucla.edu> <83pov5rmt6.fsf@gnu.org> <56DFD78F.40205@cs.ucla.edu> <56E06093.7050509@cs.ucla.edu> <83twkfo7ij.fsf@gnu.org> <20160309181005.GF3948@acm.fritz.box> <87vb4vuu59.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87pov3nrnm.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <83mvq6n7xs.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1r2mzuy.fsf@gnu.org> <8360wumxj4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457622272 641 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 15:04:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:04:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 16:04:24 2016 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 1ae28K-0006eG-OC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:04:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae28K-0004Wr-6j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:04:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae282-0004Wi-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae27x-0004mD-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae27x-0004lm-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:03:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ae27u-0006I3-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:03:46 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.186.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:03:45 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:03:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bPe36XlxCgE52Au9GI3BWejJQww= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:201390 Archived-At: > When you only want to deal with changing the commit message and not > the actual commit, it is as simple as calling `git replace --edit > '. This will bring up your system editor where you can change the > commit message. Ha! Finally! So "git replace" seems like it might do the trick. At least it leads to the right "git log" output. Now the question is: how do we distribute those "replacements"? According to "git replace --help" they're added to the refs/replace/ namespace, so what do we need to do for push/pull to propagate them? Stefan