RFC: Possibility to re-edit last commit message

[John Yates]

On Monday, Jan 29, 2007 Jari Aalto wrote:

> For what its worth, the word "amend" is very foreign to non-native speakers.

Not too long ago on a DVC mailing list someone pointed out that the a constitution is an append-only document.  For most English speakers the meaning of the verb "to amend" will follow from their familiarity with the amendment process.  I originally thought that such an observation might be generalized to nearly any developer familiar with constitutional government.  Some quick research suggests that though Finland has a constitution the amendment process is deemphasized in favor exceptive law.  Perhaps that explains why the term seems foreign to you.

/john