From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Committing other people's changes (was: bug#881: patch for bug #881) Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:00:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87637fatqz.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87wrzwp5gd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201001060700.o06706Sw006855@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262810275 30438 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 20:37:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:37:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 21:37:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NScdX-0001wG-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:37:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NScdX-0001KY-L8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:37:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NScaR-0005HS-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:34:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NScaM-00057l-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37778 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NScaL-00056z-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48982) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NScaL-0003as-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NSca9-0000hC-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:34:17 +0100 Original-Received: from p4fd47bb3.dip.t-dialin.net ([79.212.123.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:34:17 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by p4fd47bb3.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:34:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fd47bb3.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML; )7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+; CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf, d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gtIQ7OpfWaseWFNWcCcYb/W/rP4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119545 Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 06 2010, Stefan Monnier wrote: > It's a general concept, although it's not supported by all backends. > I'd imagine some log-edit-mode command that set log-edit-author and is > then somehow passed to VC via the log-edit-callback which then passes it > to the backend as an additional argument to the `commit' operation. > > Maybe the easiest way is to store the info directly in the text in the > form of a "Author: ..." line somewhere. > > Along similar lines, we'd like a way to pass the "--fixes" arg to Bzr, > so maybe we should let log-edit-mode use a buffer in a RFC822-like format, > where backends may recognize some headers ("Subject", "Author", > "Fixes", ...) and discard others. Also with CVS (in VC and PCL-CVS) it would be useful to switch to the "role" of a different user: When installing other people's changes it would be nice if `add-change-log-entry' and friends use the other name and address. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/