From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 17970@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17970: log-edit creates unwanted ChangeLog buffers
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:18:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvion5m8wi.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <me38e9xigc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:54:43 -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.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-10 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-08 2:35 bug#17970: log-edit creates unwanted ChangeLog buffers Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 7:09 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-09 15:41 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-09 16:39 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-09 20:17 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-10 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-10 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-10 16:54 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-07-10 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-10 17:46 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-09 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-09 20:19 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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