From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:19:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87hbr6jwsy.fsf@telefonica.net> <83my0yfc9g.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262348385 15711 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2010 12:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 01 13:19:38 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NQgTh-00062d-Iu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:19:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQgTh-0003pO-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:19:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQgTc-0003oz-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQgTX-0003nl-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:19:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49171 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQgTX-0003ni-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:45833) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQgTU-0007IJ-AW; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:19:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8739E1C15375; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:19:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C9E901FA; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:19:17 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.3.149]) by localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 071sbk6NByzx; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:19:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (DSL01.83.171.157.78.ip-pool.NEFkom.net [83.171.157.78]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:19:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id A0A56CA28C; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:19:15 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I like your SNOOPY POSTER!! In-Reply-To: <83my0yfc9g.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:41:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119199 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > But the issue is not to undo the commit, only fix the text of the > commit message. That's fundamentally the same. > Something similar to "cvs admin -mREV:MESSAGE". You have to forget the idea that you can modify (published) history. With a DVCS you can only create history. Once you have published a commit it is immutable. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."