Re: Automatically commenting changes

[Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>]

Richard Riley wrote:
> Gary writes:
>> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>
>>>> An editor I used long long ago had the ability to tag lines you
>>> changed
>>>> with your name (or some other customisable character sequence).

>>> I think the way to attack such a problem nowadays is to keep your
>>> code in a version control system (VCS), which then keeps track of
>>> all that info for you.
>>
>> I do. But before I commit, or rather in the process of commiting, when
>> there is the original file I branched from to consider, plus my
> changes,
>> possibly plus changes from others who have commited since I branched,
>> things can get confusing.

> git-blame
> magit

Actually I use svn. But still.

It doesn't help.

Sadly I am the only one using vcs (don't even get me *started* on that),
otherwise people just send cra^H^Hode around by email and one person
merges them into an "approved" version, similarly distributed via
email. I then maintain my "private" subversion repo, with the merges and
the changes that I make. Which means that 'svn blame' says I made all of
the changes...

(Okay, so kill me, I used the term "others who have commited" and it
wasn't 100% true.)