Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

>   > > When applying changes by non-committers, should we use the --author
>   > > option of commit?
>   > 
>   > Yes, that would be good.  We will even have to require it if/when we
>   > decide to auto-generate the ChangeLog file.
>   >
>   > > If so, is that supported by VC?
>   > 
>   > I don't think so,
>
> How should it work? We don't have any nice generic mechanism/UI for
> doing VC backend specific things in the commit buffer.

Maybe something like

##--author="John Doe <joe@doe.com>"
<<rest of commit message here>>

BTW, psvn and similar packages put some explicative text on top of the
buffer plus the list of files to be committed:

## Lines starting with '## ' will be removed from the log message.
## File(s) to commit recursively:
## foo/bar.org

I think this would be useful specially now that it is important to
commit all files at once. So VC would show:

## Lines starting with '## ' will be removed from the log message.
## Lines starting with '##-' indicate extra arguments for the command.
## File(s) to commit recursively:
## foo/bar.org

-- 
Óscar