Re: Commitfest problems

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Commitfest problems
Date: 2014-12-20 05:15:04
Message-ID: 20141220051504.GL5023@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-12-19 22:17:54 -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
> git does allow you to revise a commit message; it just makes
> downstream pulls uglier if the commit was already pushed (see
> https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-commit-message/). It might
> be possible to minimize or even eliminate that pain via git hooks.

That's completely not acceptable for anything used by others.

What can sanely changed after the fact is 'git notes'. With that notes
to commits can be added, edited and changed after the original
commit.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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