From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Chris Carlson <cwcarlson@cox.net>
Cc: 9745@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9745: 23.3; vc-register does not prompt for initial comment
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:15:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqty7ch9u3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E96C9C6.1040302@cox.net> (Chris Carlson's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:21:42 -0700")
Chris Carlson <cwcarlson@cox.net> writes:
> This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
> not to your local site managers!
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>
> Your report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list
> and the gnu.emacs.bug news group, and at http://debbugs.gnu.org.
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give
> a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':
>
> Performing a vc-register never prompts for an initial comment. The
> variable vc-initial-comment is defined in vc.el, but it is never
> referenced or used.
>
> Previous versions of Emacs prompted for an initial comment by default,
> but that feature seems to have gotten lost.
Modern VCS do not have an initial message when adding a file (just RCS
did that -- maybe SCCS too), so that feature has been removed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 11:21 bug#9745: 23.3; vc-register does not prompt for initial comment Chris Carlson
2011-10-13 21:15 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2011-10-14 2:39 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-18 7:00 ` Glenn Morris
2021-09-07 17:46 ` bug#9745: Restore vc-initial-comment functionality for VCS that support it Lars Ingebrigtsen
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