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Re: wishlist: make it possible to amend commit messages after push to remote

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JHJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date
Aug 7, 2015, 17:10 UTC
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On Friday-201508-07 12:59, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> You need to learn to consider the act of publishing as casting

your work in stone to give other people solid foundation to build on.

> ...
> If you really "get" it, you wouldn't be complaining about the
> "impossibility" part;-)
I wasn't suggesting taking away the original SHA.

But to be honest, I wasn't expecting a miracle cure. I guess the core of my gripe is just that: how the commit message is part of the SHA. But that's part of the SHA and genome of git. In other words: "sorry dude, you are out of luck".

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  1. Jarkko HietaniemiAug 7, 2015
  2. Kevin DaudtAug 7, 2015
  3. Jarkko HietaniemiAug 7, 2015
  4. Philip OakleyAug 7, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2015
  6. Jarkko HietaniemiAug 7, 2015
  7. Johannes SchindelinAug 7, 2015
  8. Jarkko HietaniemiAug 7, 2015
  9. Jeff KingAug 8, 2015

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