From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17970: log-edit creates unwanted ChangeLog buffers Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:22:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83ion5b02c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9u61j79ffg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83d2ded4c3.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqblb6ow.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405013005 7414 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2014 17:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17970@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 19:23:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3y-0005s1-PF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:23:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39205 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3y-0002iv-9o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44043) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3o-0002YP-3B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3i-0005VJ-Tg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:23:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37646) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3i-0005VB-QA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3i-0002yC-8b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:23:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17970 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 17970-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17970.140501297911404 (code B ref 17970); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17970) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Jul 2014 17:22:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52445 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3e-0002xr-Bq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:56169) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X5I3b-0002xR-AF for 17970@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N8I00I00ACRL900@mtaout28.012.net.il> for 17970@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:22:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N8I00HOCAX9XF20@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:22:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:91398 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 17970@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:18:05 -0400 > > >>> What if I already did "C-x 4 a", which visited a non-existing > >>> ChangeLog, and wrote my entry, but didn't yet save that buffer? > > Then you get punished for not committing your ChangeLog at the same time > > as the associated commit. ;) > > But this case is actually interesting because for repositories such as > `elpa' which don't use ChangeLogs but do want to use the ChangeLog > conventions in the commit message, a way to do that is to use C-x 4 a to > fill the ChangeLog buffer but you won't want to save this buffer. Not just elpa, but other projects as well. Guile and Coreutils, for example. That's how I bumped into this use case.