From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881 Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:22:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87637fg0jq.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87wrzwp5gd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201001060700.o06706Sw006855@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262762603 4082 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 07:23:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:23:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 08:23:16 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 1NSQEc-0007bJ-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:23:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSQEc-0001QU-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSQEX-0001QO-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:23:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSQES-0001QC-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38085 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSQER-0001Q9-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35371) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSQER-0002UK-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NSQEL-0007Xl-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:22:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 217.red-88-24-214.staticip.rima-tde.net ([88.24.214.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:22:57 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 217.red-88-24-214.staticip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:22:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.red-88-24-214.staticip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JbplE800X2os6sjGPFTE2j3+xSk= 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:119505 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu 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 " <> 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