[RFC] Amend commit messages

[Gilles Moris]

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 02:31:58 pm Didly wrote:
> Gilles,
>
> thinking a bit more about this I thought that perhaps there is something
> that can be done to appease those that view this as a way to "modify
> history".
>
> For example the extension could make hg log show a (*) at the beginning of
> the "amended" commit messages, making it obvious that the commit message
> has been changed.
>
> I suggest "(*)" but any other similar marker could be used of course.
> Perhaps you could even explicitly show the number of times that the commit
> message has been amended.
>
> Angel

At first, I was appending "(amended by gilles on 2011-01-23)" to the (first) 
line. But as everything must fit in one line without --verbose, this was too 
long. So your suggestion of prepending "(*)" is a very good idea.

Note that for --verbose and --debug, I have already inserted many details 
about who change the message and when.

Thanks.
Gilles.