Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Andreas Schwab]

Nikolaus Rath <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mar 09 2016, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Maybe we should move to a version control system which permits commit
>>> messages to be amended.  (Only half joking.)
>>
>> These seem to be in rather short supply, sadly.  Any suggestion?
>
> Mercurial with the "evolve" extension implements non-destructive history
> editing. In short, commits can have metadata that marks them as
> "superseding" a previous commit. Both superseded and new commit remain
> part of the repository, but most commands be default work on the
> superseding commit.

Like git replace.

Andreas.

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