Re: GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions.

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Oct 19, 12:03am, Aaron Schrab wrote:
} Subject: Re: GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions.
}
} At 18:09 -0700 18 Oct 2017, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
} >[*] Yes, I know you can use formats to present the log in a whole lot
} >of flexible ways.  But the one thing you can't change is what info is
} >stored by git in the first place, to which to apply those formats.
} 
} That's not completely true. There is git-replace(1) which can be used to 
} create replacement versions of objects, in this case commits.

Apologies; the reason I put that in a footnote is because when I say
"can't change what info is stored" I didn't mean "can't replace the
data" I meant "can't alter the data structures" (or "schema" if you
prefer to treat it like a database).  I wasn't referring back to the
"immutable" log messages.

Just as a trivial but not entirely irrelevant example, we can't make
git distinguish a zsh mailing list article sequence number and output
it in a particular way in the autogenerated commit log by changing
the format string.