Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/10/2016 09:17 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Indeed, "git replace" is a lot more powerful than I'd like....
> Is there some way to control its usage?

As far as I know, the only control is to ignore all replacements, by 
using git's --no-replace-objects option or setting the 
GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS environment variable.

As I understand it, 'git replace' was motivated by the need to do 
fancier things, e.g., link a repository with another old repository. It 
is indeed a powerful mechanism.