Comment by pwdisswordfish9
3 years ago
To "alter" a commit message after it has already been widely disseminated, branch from the offending commit, make a new commit with a message that contains the relevant info, switch back to mainline, and then merge that branch.
That would be an awesome start.
It would also be really nice to have a 'book' of sorts of this type of lore. Though admittedly, it would probably be hard to remember what to even include without stories like this.
The Arc42 documentation template hat was one of the 12 sections dedicated to "important, expensive or critical design descisions". It makes a pretty good structure for big-picture documetation in a "book" next to the code.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32353500
just write a note instead