From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:00:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <201001060700.o06706Sw006855@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <87wrzwp5gd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262761330 1446 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 07:02:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Chong Yidong , Emacs developers To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 08:02:02 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 1NSPu5-00021w-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:02:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSPu6-0006Zg-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSPtw-0006Z0-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSPtr-0006XG-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36965 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSPtr-0006X9-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.153]:58692) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSPtq-0004jz-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o06706cn008507 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:00:06 -0800 Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id o06706Sw006855; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:00:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:34:11 -0500") Original-Lines: 17 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please send mail to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu or more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: o06706cn008507 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu 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:119504 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> It is against the emacs-23 branch, because I could not check out the > >>> trunk today. > >> Applied, thanks. > > 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.