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Re: master 871c027: Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remo
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: master 871c027: Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted files." |
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Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:43:36 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:21:04 -0700
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> eliz@gnu.org (Eli Zaretskii) writes:
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> > branch: master
> > commit 871c027080f1b4faf2d6b8cb0546fe7c5c9bb2db
> > Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted
> > files."
> >
> > This reverts commit 731a26bb50aabeb2c0512f0e45b3cda76029a590.
> >
> > We don't support rewriting history!
> > People who contributed to Emacs development should have their
> > contributions remain acknowledged forever, even if the files
> > to which they contributed are deleted at some point.
>
> If this is the new policy, it would be a good idea to change the
> description in ack.texi to reflect it:
Done.
> Note that there have already been a number of such removals over the
> years. You might want to consider reverting these previous removals as
> well in the interest of consistency.
Feel free to revert them as well.