Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> On 03/13/2016 05:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > As for the
>> > latter, I think quite a few people who track the development and
>> > contribute patches do that, so I think it's important for their
>> > workflows to be undisturbed.
>>
>> If a person can rebase, they can fix the commit message while doing
>> that. There's no point is supporting an alternative mechanism there.
>
> No, I mean the messages corrected in commits by others.

Commits by others do not typically occur on branches which are
socially accepted as rebasable. The only case I can think of is when
you cherry-pick someone’s commit into your feature branch while that
commit had been corrected. Is that the case you have in mind?