Re: ChangeLog's: do we have to?

[Paul Koning]

> On Jul 10, 2018, at 2:18 PM, NightStrike <nightstr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 1:17 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddh...@gotplt.org> 
> wrote:
>> ...
>> 
>> We had discussed making addition of ChangeLog entries into the commit
>> message mandatory but the issue there is that commit logs cannot be (or more
>> precisely, should not be) modified after they're pushed so errors in
>> ChangeLog entries will remain.  Carlos had suggested git notes, but I don't
>> know off the top of my head how they work; I vaguely remember them being
>> editable.
> 
> You could do this now under svn, I believe, as svn allows --rev-prop
> changes to modify the log.

Yes, and possibly other rev properties as well, provided the server hook script 
is changed to enable whatever you want to allow.  By default all revprop 
modifications are blocked.

        paul