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Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs
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Sven Axelsson |
Subject: |
Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:25:49 +0100 |
On 10 March 2016 at 14:14, Evgeny Panasyuk <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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".
That's right. As mentioned earlier in the thread, it creates a
replacement object stored in a special refs hierarchy. But for normal
use, e.g. git log, git grep and such it appears as if the commit
objects have been changed in-place.
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Sven Axelsson
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- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, (continued)
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Sven Axelsson, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Evgeny Panasyuk, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs,
Sven Axelsson <=
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, John Wiegley, 2016/03/12
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/13
- 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, 2016/03/10