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bug#12946: 23.2; log-edit-insert-changelog not inserting a description l
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#12946: 23.2; log-edit-insert-changelog not inserting a description line from ChangeLog file |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:30:50 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> 2012-11-16 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org>
>
> This is a deccription line.
>
> * random-file: New file.
If you don't use a blank line between the two, you get
This is a description line.
* random-file: New file.
in the log buffer, which seems fine to me. You can easily kill all but
the first line if you don't want it.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Style-of-Change-Logs.html#Style-of-Change-Logs
says not to put blank lines between related entries (essentially, IMO).
(Maybe it should be updated for the practise of adding a leading summary.)
> * random-file: New file.
>
> What would be useful is that you got the description line inserted
> instead, with nothing following it. This is common practise when
> working with various distributed version control systems where the
> commit entry only contains a brief description of the change, and the
> ChangeLog contains the detailed information.
Really? I got the impression the trend was to generate ChangeLogs from
commit logs.