Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:49:34 +0100
> From: Sven Axelsson <address@hidden>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>, emacs <address@hidden>
> 
> When you only want to deal with changing the commit message and not
> the actual commit, it is as simple as calling `git replace --edit
> <SHA>'. This will bring up your system editor where you can change the
> commit message.
> 
> Doing it this way will not change history.

How can it not change history, when (AFAIK) the log message is part of
the commit object, and it included in the stuff that determines the
SHA1 checksum of the commit?