From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: 4610@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4610: 23.1; VC commit buffer should list files to be committed
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:54:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912101954.nBAJsrFL014783@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r5tmvme1.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:23:50 -0600")
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Today I accidentally committed one file but not another one from
> *vc-dir*. That happened because point was on one file, not on the
> containing directory as I'd thought.
>
> It would be nice if the VC commit message buffer listed the files that
> were going to be committed. Such a list should automatically be
> stripped out before being sent to the underlying command as the commit
> message.
The list of files to be committed can be seen by using `log-edit-show-files'.
log-edit-hook can be configured to do it automatically.
On the other hand is it clear that showing such a list by default helps?
My personal experience with perforce (where files are listed in the
commit message by default -- and the list is editable) shows that the
same mistake is quite possible (and not infrequent) there. IMMV...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-10 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-01 21:23 bug#4610: 23.1; VC commit buffer should list files to be committed Tom Tromey
2009-12-10 19:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2021-07-18 18:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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