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Re: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah.
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah. |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:49:16 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hello, John
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:42:49AM -0500, John Yates wrote:
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> > or would I be better just to abandon the branch and create another one?
> My understanding is that if you never merge that tip with its sub-par
> commit message into master then ultimately it will time out and get
> garbage collected. You could create a new branch just before the one
> you wish to amend and push that new branch to Savannah. (Under the
> covers that is more or less what git amend does.) From then on you
> would work on that new branch, ultimately merging it into master.
Presumably the timeout period is some system-wide setting, and it will
be something like 3 months.
> /john
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).