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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in the elpa branch
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:57:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ty7yz7kd.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nzypniu.fsf@gnu.org> (Bastien's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:22:49 +0200")

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> At least for git, you can edit the last commit message with a simple
> ~$ git commit --amend

git rebase -i can conveniently do that for older commits as well.

> But editing the commit logs beyond that goes against a principle that
> is somewhat carved in stone: "Don't modify the commit logs history."

The principle is actually: "Don't modify published history."  It is
perfectly ok to edit commits locally until you are happy with them
before publishing them.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-26  7:09 ChangeLogs in the elpa branch Michael Albinus
2011-09-26  9:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-09-26 10:23   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 10:35     ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 14:23       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 15:52         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 16:49           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 21:13         ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 11:46   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-26 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 13:49   ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 16:26   ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-26 16:38     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:18       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-26 17:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 21:18       ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 21:27         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-27  3:10           ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-27  5:22       ` Bastien
2011-09-27  8:57         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-09-27  9:04           ` Bastien
2011-09-27  9:25           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 13:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27  7:10       ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-27  9:05         ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27  9:45           ` joakim
2011-09-27 12:02           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-27 13:05             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27  9:00     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27 12:24     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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