Fixing gcc git logs

Toon Moene toon@moene.org
Thu Jan 2 13:26:00 GMT 2020


On 1/2/20 11:49 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> On 02/01/2020 02:00, Jerry wrote:

>> In the following git log entry, I made a typo on the PR number in the
>> libgfortran ChangeLog file. I noticed this right after the git commit,
>> while editing the git log.

...

> If you've pushed the branch to a public tree then it might be too late,
> depending on the push policy for branches (in gcc trunk we will not
> permit rewriting history in that way because it breaks other users
> trying to pull).  Some more private branches might permit such rewriting
> of history.

I am glad you explained it. Previously, the only reaction I got from 
git-cognoscenti was "Don't do that - it will ruin history for everybody!".

Thanks ! Might 2020 be the year of git for GCC.

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