Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Andreas Schwab writes:

> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello, Stefan.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:09:53PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> > Maybe we should move to a version control system which permits commit
>>> > messages to be amended.  (Only half joking.)
>>
>>> These seem to be in rather short supply, sadly.  Any suggestion?
>>
>> Mercurial.  It has the hg histedit command.
>
> Git.  It has the git rebase command.
>
> Andreas.

That requires throwing out your previous history... that's not good
practice for code already pushed to a master branch, unless it's an
emergency.  It creates huge headaches.