Re: ChangeLogs

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Weber
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 06.01.2009, 08:47 -0500 schrieb John W. Eaton:
>> On  6-Jan-2009, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> | The disadvantages I see are that this amount of information can't
>>
>> One other potential problem is that although currently we can fix up
>> ChangeLog entries if they are incomplete or in error, I don't think
>> there is any way to do that with the Mercurial log messages.  Or am I
>> missing something?
>
> It is possible, but may result in a lot of problems:
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/EditingHistory
>
> Essentially, from the very first change onwards, the hashes change. So
> people would have to rebase their repositories.
>
> I guess that doing this like once every X months would be possible.
>

Normal members of the Octave group can't work with the repo directly,
our access is limited to comitting. Perhaps John can?


>        Thomas
>
>



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