Re: Writing ChangeLog-style commit messages with Magit

[Federico Tedin <federicotedin@gmail.com>]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> I use C-x 4 a combined with 'vc-dwim' and 'vc-dwim --commit'
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/>.

Thanks! Just noticed it's mentioned in the CONTRIBUTE file, hadn't
realized before.

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> Magit supports that out of the box!  Initiate a commit, and then hit C
> (`magit-commit-add-log') in the shown diff buffer which will generate a
> ChangeLog-style commit message line for the hunk under point in the
> commit message buffer.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo

This is what was mentioned in the SO link I posted, but it seems to be
the best way there currently is to do this via Magit. Thanks for the
tip!

- Fede