Changing a commit message

[Erik Bågfors]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
<raul at dervishd.net> wrote:
> Saluton Erik :)

Saluton, cxu vi parolas esperanton?


>
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 00:08:12 +0200, Erik Bågfors dixit:
>> There has been thoughts about history "annotation". Where you could
>> add a comment to a specific revision. IMHO this would be the perfect
>> way to solve this. The commit message is history that can't be
>> changed, but you can add/remove/modify comments at any time.
>
> OK, an annotation would not be history, but that doesn't solve the
> distribution of such annotations unless they are local. And then you
> have to be careful about which branch are you working on (different
> branches may have different anotations).

We already have that problem with tags.  Also, annotations could be
made "add only" and that way there will simply not be any conflicts.

/Erik