Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The main issues were (and are) the following:
>> - How to edit past commit messages when they're
>> incorrect/incomplete/...?
> Git notes still seems like a good solution.

AFAIK "git notes" is a low-level tool which clever scripts might be able
to leverage to provide the ability to "edit past commit messages".
I've never seen those clever scripts, tho.

>> - How to do C-x 4 a when there's no ChangeLog file?
> You don't need to.

I do.

> I'm usually writing the commit messages as I stage
> the diffs for the upcoming commit.  I also frequently rewrite commits
> before pushing them upstream.  Extracting that information from a
> ChangeLog to build the commit message is completely backwards with that

C-x 4 a has nothing to do with extracting the message from
the ChangeLog.  I usually use C-x 4 a from the *vc-diff* buffer.


        Stefan