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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
Cc: Morgan Smith <Morgan.J.Smith@outlook.com>,
	Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,
	64055@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64055: [WIP Patch] Enable editing commit messages - vc-git-modify-change-comment
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:48:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o73sad24.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ed4obs1b.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (Sean Whitton's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:39:12 +0800")

Hello,

On Thu 10 Oct 2024 at 10:39am +08, Sean Whitton wrote:

> So one thing we could do is add a VC backend action which returns just
> the message text that a human might want to edit.
> Probably a backend action called `get-change-comment'.
>
> I think, though, that there might be subtle complexities there.  For
> example, should there be a FILES argument, or just a REVISION argument?
> For Git and Hg it's just REVISION, but we wouldn't want to bake that in.
>
> I think, therefore, that the approach of parsing text out of the
> log-view buffer is more future-proof, even though it's complex.

Hmm.  We could just include all arguments that might be wanted and then
backend functions can ignore them.

I would appreciate opinions comparing adding a new get-change-comment VC
backend function with something like the WIP I posted.

-- 
Sean Whitton





  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-10  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-13 22:59 bug#64055: [WIP Patch] Enable editing commit messages - vc-git-modify-change-comment Morgan Smith
2023-06-14  8:00 ` Robert Pluim
2023-06-14 11:41   ` Morgan Smith
2023-06-14 13:13     ` Robert Pluim
2023-06-14 13:54       ` Morgan Smith
2023-06-14 15:30         ` Robert Pluim
2024-10-01  2:38       ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-01 19:32         ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-02  0:01           ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-02 23:20             ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-10  2:39               ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-10  2:48                 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2023-06-17  2:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-01  2:37   ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-01 13:35     ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-10  2:45 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-10  6:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10  6:23     ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-10  7:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10  7:46         ` Sean Whitton

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