Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote:

> Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but
> using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way it
> gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal.

How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? And 
after making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only redo it 
fully.

How about putting all corrections as plain files in a subdirectory? Each 
file will be named after a commit whose message it's "changing". IIRC, 
I've seen such idea mentioned before, and it seems like it should work.

We could even implement integration with vc-print-log without too much 
difficulty. The main thing to solve is the cherrypick commits (does the 
correction apply to whose? always?); but as long as cherrypicks include 
the references to their parents in the message, it should be workable, 
one way or another.