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To "alter" a commit message after it has already been widely disseminated, branch from the offending commit, make a new commit with a message that contains the
by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
To "alter" a commit message after it has already been widely disseminated, branch from the offending commit, make a new commit with a message that contains the relevant info, switch back to mainline, and then merge that branch.
- silisili 4y agoThat would be an awesome start. It would also be really nice to have a 'book' of sorts of this type of lore. Though admittedly, it would probably be hard to remember what to even include without stories like this.
- wongarsu 4y agoThe Arc42 documentation template hat was one of the 12 sections dedicated to "important, expensive or critical design descisions". It makes a pretty good structure for big-picture documetation in a "book" next to the code. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32353500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32353500
- cerved 4y agojust write a note instead