Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-07-11 11:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If someone would like to write a command that looks at the last commit
> (or several commits), and generates a skeleton of a log entry, I'm all
> for it.  (People will have to "git commit --amend" to use such a
> command, but that's not a problem, I think, and could also be
> automated.)

Indeed, I suspect a simple magit extension to populate the current commit 
message buffer with the appropriate text would satisfy most people who dislike 
the current format.
(I'm suggesting magit because I don't know how the build-in VC frontend works 
in terms of inputing commit messages)

Clément.