Git in PLD - basic HOWTO

[Kacper Kornet]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:05:40PM +0200, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 05:55:35PM +0200, Kacper Kornet wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 05:39:33PM +0200, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > > Is there any way to change mistaken changelog entry after push?

> > If you ask about changelog generated during build process and included
> > in rpm, then yes. If the commit is annotated with git-notes in name
> > space refs/notes/commits, then this note is used instead of commitlog.

> > I will write a small howto describing the process. But you can see an
> > example in package dosemu. Please look in gitk at commit
> > 1478030904125f1f0180e144ed4312ae8754f63f 

> Yes, this should suffice.

> I assume that overwriting original git history is undesirable
> (we didn't do it in CVS case either).

For master branches and auto tags it is forbidden by ACLs. For other
branches it is allowed. For other branchesz it is possible to allow for
rebasing, removing of old branches etc. I think also AC uses this
possibility for AC-branch. But it should be done with respect to other
developers.

-- 
  Kacper