From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:04:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-subtree Ready #2
Message-ID: <m3ehtfvhkv.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20120227212157.GA19779@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 
> Yeah, I don't see much point in rewriting. If parts of the history suck,
> then so be it.  It's probably not that big to store. And while it's
> sometimes easier to fix bad commit messages when they are recent and in
> your memory (rather than trying to remember later what you meant to
> say), I think it is already too late for that. Any archaeology you do
> now to make good commit messages could probably just as easily be done
> if and when somebody actually needs the commit message later (emphasis
> on the "if" -- it's likely that nobody will care about most of the
> commit messages later at all).

Anyway we already have subtree merges if subsystem with bad error
messages -- see gitweb.
-- 
Jakub Narebski