Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > Right: by "edit past commit messages" we mean "without rewriting
 > history".  I know it sounds contradictory, but it is only paradoxical.

It's neither.  It's an artifact of git implementation.

I'm pretty sure there are VCSes that don't make the commit message
part of history, but I think that's disgusting and don't allow VCSes
like that in my house.