From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git-subtree Ready #2 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:04:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87ty2ro1zf.fsf@smith.obbligato.org> <20120220205346.GA6335@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vd399jdwc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vobsox84l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87hayfv75y.fsf@smith.obbligato.org> <7vy5rrfft2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87ty2ft0tm.fsf@smith.obbligato.org> <7vobsk56md.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120227212157.GA19779@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , "David A. Greene" , Avery Pennarun , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 28 03:05:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2CRb-0001PU-IW for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:05:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754213Ab2B1CFQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:05:16 -0500 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:64823 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753502Ab2B1CEy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:04:54 -0500 Received: by eaah12 with SMTP id h12so2422562eaa.19 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:04:52 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jnareb@gmail.com designates 10.14.202.130 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.14.202.130; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jnareb@gmail.com designates 10.14.202.130 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jnareb@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=jnareb@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.14.202.130]) by 10.14.202.130 with SMTP id d2mr9627199eeo.83.1330394692845 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:04:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=0TmOpqqVau1JgKAllZQ97pllwmieLzFwqDYvn/ZMm/c=; b=DweOyVqVatzqn7hFgmi1XDBv5LPvEQGYAjUR0AwgpI+mMHYQGU8gIN+GTM+1OkhFGa Y2tyAfqMoUGrQebQEm4tzhO3UGTOw4Dqkn4BS9dKeE0jvC/mWI13JeXOmS3R5aZaimA7 Ig1TJfW+fliPVaRMvpH8cDpXpmslWi8TC917I= Received: by 10.14.202.130 with SMTP id d2mr7173837eeo.83.1330394692694; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:04:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abwi97.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl. [83.8.232.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s48sm64679923eem.0.2012.02.27.18.04.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q1S24qDZ010995; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:04:53 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id q1S24neL010992; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:04:49 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <20120227212157.GA19779@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King 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