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
>

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