Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Evgeny Panasyuk]

10.03.2016 16:08, Eli Zaretskii:
> > 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?

As I understand it does not change original commit object, but rather 
creates kind of "replacement rule". In a similar manner as git notes 
attaches additional info to commit message without changing original one.
If you would not fetch replacement refs then you will not see these 
"amendments".

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Evgeny Panasyuk