Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> > 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?
>
> No, I mean "git pull --rebase" and its variants.  AFAIK, there's
> nothing anti-social in such a workflow, when you have local unpushed
> commits that you intend to push later.

If you do a git pull --rebase, then your branch now starts after the
other’s commit. I assume any corrections that apply to that commit on
master (or whatever other development branch it is on), also apply to
that same commit as seen from your feature branch.