On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:18:45PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > One thing we already do is to give an extra "Author: " line in the > comment when the user edits the log message, so that it is clear > that what is being edited is not their own work but hers. We obviously > can add the extra warning, when the is_ancestor() thing triggers, to > say YOU ARE REWRITING PUBLISHED HISTORY in blinking red > bold letters there. > > But the symptom indicates that they are not reading these warning > comment. Maybe they would if the warnings were a big paragraph *before* the commit message (but brains are easily trained to recognize patterns and skip them, so that would need to be done for very specific warnings, not for everything that's printed in a git commit editor). Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html