Would it affect the git history if the svn logs were modified with the updated 
issue numbers now that it has already been pushed?

On 30/03/2011, at 10:06 PM, Tamás Cservenák wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> completely agreed, but let me explain -- not that it matters:
> 
> I had a lot of accumulated changes in my github fork of maven-indexer,
> and initially did not wanted to disturb other forks of my repository.
> 
> Hence, I started pushing changes _without_ changing commit messages
> first -- thinking "it would change history, hence screw other forks".
> 
> I was distracted with ASF SVN mirroring pain (dcommiting multiple
> commits from EU, --no-rebase was not helping, there was a lot of
> interlaving changes for same file), but solved luckily:
> 
> http://twitter.com/#!/cstamas/status/53021178750701568
> 
> And then I realized: git-svn _also modifies_ history, but it was late
> then :( I already started pushing (and had to recover few times until
> I found out the dnsmasq fix), since there was a LOT of commits to be
> dcommited back to ASF SVN.
> 
> To at least make it better, I linked the MINDEXER jira issues to the
> SVN revisions, so at least we have the JIRA->SVN direction, but SVN
> commit logs does not point back.
> 
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MINDEXER-15
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MINDEXER-16
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MINDEXER-17
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MINDEXER-18
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> ~t~
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Benjamin Bentmann
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think it would be more appropriate if those commits were mentioning the
>> corresponding MINDEXER issue.
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