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Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:50:37 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:17:06 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> > I'm not a fan of 'git replace' for the same reason I'm not a fan of changing
> > history in general.
>
> Indeed, "git replace" is a lot more powerful than I'd like.
>
> I don't consider commit messages as being part of "what happened" but
> rather as a description of what happened (i.e. what historiographers
> write). So, I'm perfectly fine with "git replace" used on
> commit messages.
That's my view as well, although having heard about this command just
today admittedly doesn't give my view too much weight.
> > I don't plan to use it and won't recommend it to others. However, if
> > allowing its usage is the price we need to pay for Eli's agreement
> > then I'm willing to pay that price.
>
> Is there some way to control its usage?
I think we also need to test-drive it before we decide to use it.
I hope someone will try that and report back.
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, (continued)
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Sven Axelsson, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Yuri Khan, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Noam Postavsky, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, John Wiegley, 2016/03/12
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09