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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"David A. Greene" <greened@obbligato.org>,
	Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-subtree Ready #2
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:04:51 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ehtfvhkv.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120227212157.GA19779@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 
> Yeah, I don't see much point in rewriting. If parts of the history suck,
> then so be it.  It's probably not that big to store. And while it's
> sometimes easier to fix bad commit messages when they are recent and in
> your memory (rather than trying to remember later what you meant to
> say), I think it is already too late for that. Any archaeology you do
> now to make good commit messages could probably just as easily be done
> if and when somebody actually needs the commit message later (emphasis
> on the "if" -- it's likely that nobody will care about most of the
> commit messages later at all).

Anyway we already have subtree merges if subsystem with bad error
messages -- see gitweb.
-- 
Jakub Narebski

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-11 17:35 git-subtree Ready #2 David A. Greene
2012-02-11 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 19:22   ` David A. Greene
2012-02-15  4:30 ` David A. Greene
2012-02-15  5:08   ` Jeff King
2012-02-15  5:31     ` David A. Greene
2012-02-16  4:07       ` David A. Greene
2012-02-20 19:34         ` David A. Greene
2012-02-20 20:53         ` Jeff King
2012-02-20 23:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-21  5:37             ` David A. Greene
2012-02-21  6:34               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-21  7:10                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-21  8:44                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-21  9:07               ` Thomas Rast
2012-02-24  1:19             ` Avery Pennarun
2012-02-24 20:56               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-24 23:57                 ` Avery Pennarun
2012-02-25  5:00                   ` David A. Greene
2012-02-25  9:00                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-25 15:00                       ` David A. Greene
2012-02-27 21:06                         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-27 21:21                           ` Jeff King
2012-02-27 21:23                             ` Jeff King
2012-02-28  2:04                             ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2012-02-28 22:42                               ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-02  3:42                           ` David A. Greene
2012-02-21  5:31           ` David A. Greene

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