Found a negative answer to #2 in some ASF instructions <http://www.apache.org/security/committers.html> for security issues (*underline added*):
15. The log for the svn commit that applied the fix is updated to include > the CVE number. Projects that use git as their primary source code control > system should not do this as *editing a pushed commit causes all sorts of > problems*. All the more reason to be careful about the JIRA number when you commit a patch. -- Lefty On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since switching to git, three commits have had the wrong JIRA number. Two > were typos and the third one gave the umbrella issue's number. Fortunately > the correct issue could be found by searching for the summary text. > > 1. How can we reduce this failure rate? > 2. Can JIRA numbers be fixed after-the-fact in commit records? > 3. Should JIRA issues track commit IDs? > > -- Lefty >