<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><html>On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:33, Stuart McGraw wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Why are commit messages immutable? They are (in theory) not really part of the state of a set of files but rather meta-information about that state, yes? <br><br>This issue is preventing my adoption of a DVCS. I have a CVS repository in which a number of commit message are wrong, misleading, vague, or otherwise sub-par. I not infrequently need to find previous work based on these messages. As I find problems or have time, I fix bad commit messages by editing the CVS repo files in-place. But once I import this repo into Mercurial (or any other free DVCS AFAIK [1]) the commit messages will be set in stone for all eternity, so I have put off making the jump.<br></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Your description also sounds like it applies to the code itself, or comments within the code, or the changeset author, or the date.<br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It's all the same to me.<br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Dustin Sallings</div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>