Fix committer name ?

[David Muir]

Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Andrew Cowie wrote:
>
>   
>> I *DO* wish we had a way to commit changes to metadata; then we could
>> clean up these things.
>>     
>
> Me too. It might be nice to design and implement this as part of the 3.0
> UI push. I'm thinking of something like:
>
>   bzr correct --committer foo --author bar --message "blah blah blah"
>
> We don't want to mutate the *original* data so we'll need to store these
> off to the side in a "corrections" file and work out some sensible way
> of merging them. Would we want conflict resolution to be automagic or
> user-controllable (http://bazaar-vcs.org/DraftSpecs/MetafileManagement)?
>
> It would be easy to extend log (and any command that uses the log API)
> to show corrections in place of the original data. Would that be
> sufficient for most users?
>
> Ian C.
>
>   

Something like that would be fantastic. I'm constantly committing things 
with the wrong bug tracker references or wrong commit messages...

David

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