Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tale of the 'log-for-merge' problem

[Jason McCarty]

Alexander Deruwe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:24:53AM -0400, Jason McCarty wrote:
> > [2] http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-July/030354.html
> > [3] http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-July/030357.html
> 
> This seems like it would solve my problem, except for two things:
> 
> 1. The patch logs in the newer tla archive that have bogus
> 'log-for-merge' output appended; can I just modify those and commit?

I think it's considered a bad idea to modify history, even if it wouldn't
have a functional effect, but I'll leave others to justify that. Is it a
problem to have the faulty entries in the patch-log?

> 2. Same for the "Continuation-of:" header in the old archive; modify and
> commit?

I think you can safely leave this alone.

Jason